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Considering What Counts: The Limits of Proxy Measures
NumeracyPeople working with data adopt proxy measures when they find it difficult to measure something directly. In the U.S., infanticide (fairly easy to count) is used as a proxy for physical child abuse. However, infanticide is harder to count cross-nationally,
Keith Johnson, Joel Best
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The legal discourse on the case Romina Tejerina: a look at key gender
Punto Género, 2013 It is the aim of this article to replace and problematize on some legal discourses about the case of Romina Tejerina, providing special attention to the gendered dimension on them.
María Laura Martinetti
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Capitalism and Femicide: an Empirical Inquiry
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the claim that capitalism (or neoliberal reforms) is associated with higher rates of femicide, which is often identified as an outcome of the capitalist exploitation of women in parts of the feminist literature. Employing a panel of 163 countries observed between 1990 and 2023, we find no significantly positive ...
Christian Bjørnskov, Martin Rode
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal +3 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
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The Infanticide as an Expression of Violence and Denial of Maternal Love Myth
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2018 In this paper we discuss the crime of infanticide in Brazil. We try to understand the historical roots of motherhood and violence, relating them to the social class category, therefore, the data point to the fact that the women involved with this kind of
Veralucia Pinheiro
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A review of practical approach in suspected infanticide deaths
Forensic Science International: ReportsDetermining stillbirth or livebirth in cases of infant abandonment is a complex and challenging task in autopsy practice. This distinction is crucial in determining whether the death is link to natural causes or potentially involves criminal implications.
Lii Jye Tan +6 more
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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
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