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Femicide: A Need for Orientation

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11, November 2024.
ABSTRACT Femicide can be understood as a political term rather than a legal or medico‐legal one—its contemporary use dates back to the late 1970s, when academics began to explore and define terminologies that exposed the gendered nature of violence, and that when a woman was murdered her gender was not incidental to that fact.
Nechama R. Brodie
wiley   +1 more source

Borderland, Maquilas, and Feminicide

open access: yesContingent Horizons: The York University Student Journal of Anthropology, 1969
The rise of maquiladoras, or foreign owned manufacturing plants, in Mexico during the 1970s and 80s symbolizes the social and economic tension of the Mexican–United States borderland. With the implementation of agreements like the Border Industrialization Program (1965) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994) that created and supported the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Feminicide and the Politics of Representation: Media perpetuating and normalizing gender violence in Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Feminicide has been considered the most extreme form of gender violence and one of the worse human rights violations in Mexico. However, little academic attention has been given to cases different to Ciudad Juárez although the phenomenon has spread ...
Ramírez Carreño, S.M.
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Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 511-524, September/October 2024.
Abstract Stalking can be defined as a pattern of fixated, repeated, and unwanted behaviours. Stalking is not an isolated incident and was associated to sexual violence. While the relationship between sexual violence and stalking is scarcely explored, no studies have tested the relationship between stalking and sexual homicide, which both involves ...
Ewa Stefanska, Nicholas Longpré
wiley   +1 more source

Feminicide as a determinant of Mexican female life expectancy in the 21st century [PDF]

open access: yesDemographic Research
BACKGROUND: Violence in Latin America has intensified in recent decades, with Mexico facing rising homicide rates linked to drug-related conflict.
Itzel Diaz-Juarez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unsilencing silence on business school sexism: A behind‐the‐scenes narration on regaining voice

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 31, Issue 5, Page 2138-2157, September 2024.
Abstract Unsilencing sexism‐related silence is not a new need, particularly in academic institutions heavily imbued with patriarchy, where sexist events are often ignored or denigrated. In this paper, we draw on a sexist cyberbullying attack unleashed against part of our academic work to extend a critique to the silence culture surrounding business ...
Mar Pérezts, Emmanouela Mandalaki
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: gender-based violence and international relations

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2017
Violence against women (according to the WHO, one in three women worldwide suffers from gender violence) is an issue of global security as well as of human rights.
Alison Brysk
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 40-63, September 2024.
Abstract Researchers in variationist sociolinguistics have long sought to develop social measures that are more sophisticated than demographic categories such as age, gender, and social class, while still being useful for quantitative analysis. This paper presents one such new measure: discursive worlds.
Heather Burnett   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FEMINICIDE IN ITALY: SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THE CURRENT CRIMINAL LAW

open access: yes, 2014
Feminicide is defined as the killing of women due to their gender, Feminicide is a broader criminology category, which includes every kind of violence on women, systematically exerted in behalf of a patriarchal system, it is a violation of human rights ...
Masullo, A   +4 more
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Feminicide als afzonderlijk misdrijf in het Strafwetboek: een sterk wapen of 'une fausse bonne id\ue9e'?

open access: yes, 2022
: Feminicide of \u2018vrouwenmoord\u2019 is, kortweg, het doden van een vrouw omdat ze een vrouw is. In de strijd tegen deze belangrijke maatschappelijke problematiek wordt soms voorgesteld om van feminicide een afzonderlijk misdrijf te maken in het ...
Vandermeersch, Damien   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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