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This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.
List of contents
Foreword by Dubravka Šimonovic, Former Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences (2015-2021)
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1:
Femicide and feminicide: A growing global human rights movementAuthors: Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed Vega
Part 2 Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives
Chapter 2:
A global archaeology of femi(ni)cideAuthor: Saide Mobayed Vega
Chapter 3:
Femicide and the global political economy Authors: Alison Brysk and Vitória Moreira
Chapter 4:
Understanding femicide using a global social ecological modelAuthors: Emma Fulu, Victoria Alondra, Xian Warner, Chay Brown and Loksee Leung
Chapter 5:
Femicide and intersectionalityAuthor: Lorena Sosa
Chapter 6:
Femicide/feminicide and colonialismAuthors: Paulina García-Del Moral, Dolores Figueroa Romero, Patricia Torres Sandoval, and Laura Hernández Pérez
Chapter 7:
Femi[ni]cide and space: Theorising the socio-spatial scripts of femi[ni]cideAuthor: Lorena Fuentes
Chapter 8:
Systems of power and femicide: The intersections of race, gender, and extremist violence Authors: Maria N. Scaptura and Brittany E. Hayes
Part 3 Data and Methodological Considerations
Chapter 9:
Data sources and challenges in addressing femicide and feminicideAuthors: Angelika Zecha, Naeemah Abrahams, Karine Duhamel, Cristina Fabré, Alejandra Otamendi, Alejandra Rios Cazares, Heidi Stöckl, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed Vega
Chapter 10: Feminicide data activism
Collectif Féminicides Par Compagnons ou Ex Feminizidmap, Kathomi Gatwiri, Counting Dead Women project, Savia Hasanova, Anna Kapushenko, Lyubava Malysheva, Saide Mobayed Vega, Audrey Mugeni, Counting Dead Women project, Rosalind Page, Black Femicide project, Ivonne Ramírez Ramírez,
Ellas Tienen Nombre project, Helena Suárez Val,
Feminicidio Uruguay project, Dawn Wilcox, Women Count USA: Femicide Accountability project and Aimee Zambrano Ortiz,
Monitor de Femicidios project, Utopix
Chapter 11: Femicide/feminicide observatories and watches
Vathsala Illesinghe, Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven, Femi(ni)cide Watch Poland, Feminicidio.net, Observatorio de Feminicidios, Observatorio feminicidios Colombia - Red feminista antimilitarista, Shalva Weil, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed Vega
Part 4 Femicide and Feminicide Across World Regions and Countries
Chapter 12:
Femicide in AfghanistanAuthors: Mohammad Ibrahim Dariush, Farzana Adell, and Angelika Zecha
Chapter 13:
Femicide in AustraliaAuthors: Patricia Cullen, Jenna Price and Natasha Walker
Chapter 14:
Feminicide in Brazil Author: Joana Perrone
Chapter 15:
Femicide in CanadaAuthors: Wendy Aujla, Myrna Dawson, Crystal J. Giesbrecht, Nneka MacGregor, Shiva Nourpanah
Chapter 16:
Femicide in EuropeAuthors: Marceline Naudi, Monika Schröttle, Elina Kofou, Maria José Magalhães, and Christiana Kouta
Chapter 17:
Femicide in GeorgiaAuthor: Tamar Dekanosidze
Chapter 18:
Femicide in IndiaAuthor: Nishi Mitra vom Berg
Chapter 19:
Feminicide in Mexico Authors: Saide Mobayed Vega, Sonia M. Frías, Fabiola de Lachica Huerta, and Aleida Luján-Pinelo
Chapter 20:
Femicide in Palestinian SocietyAuthors: Rafah Anabtawi, Iman Jabbour, and Abeer Baker
Chapter 21:
Femicide in Russian Federation Authors: Ksenia Meshkova and Lyubava Malysheva
Chapter 22:
Femicide in South AfricaAuthors: Nechama Brodie, Shanaaz Mathews, and Naeemah Abrahams
Chapter 23:
Femicide in Sub-Saharan Africa Authors: Emmanuel Rohn and Eric Y. Tenkorang
Chapter 24:
Femicide in TurkeyAuthors: Ceyda Ulukaya and Bü¿ra Yalç¿nöz Uçan
Chapter 25:
Femicide in the United KingdomAuthor: Karen Ingala Smith
Chapter 26:
Femicide in the United StatesAuthors: Jill Theresa Messing, Millan A. AbiNader, Jesenia Pizarro, April M. Zeoli, Em Loerzel, Tricia Bent-Goodley, and Jacquelyn Campbell
Part 5 Understanding Femicide and Feminicide Subtypes and Contexts
Chapter 27:
Intimate femicide/intimate partner femicide Authors: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree Maher
Chapter 28:
Population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India: A feminist critique of criminalisationAuthors: Navtej Purewal and Lisa Eklund
Chapter 29:
Systemic sexual feminicide: Colonial scars in bodies and territoriesAuthor: Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso
Chapter 30: '
Honour'-based femicideAuthor: Aisha K. Gill
Chapter 31:
Femigenocide Authors: Rita Laura Segato and Lívia Vitenti
Chapter 32:
Sex work feminicide and the making of #SayHerName campaign by SWEAT in South AfricaAuthor: Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki
Chapter 33:
Armed conflict femicideAuthor: Anna Alvazzi del Frate
Chapter 34:
Femicide in the context of gang-related violence in El Salvador Authors: Silvia Ivette Juárez Barrios and Erika J. Rojas Ospina
Chapter 35:
Continuities and discontinuities between the concepts of feminicide and transfeminicide in MexicoAuthors: Sayak Valencia and Liliana Falcón
Chapter 36:
Femi(ni)cide as war as femi(ni)cide: Violence and justice-seeking beyond bordersAuthor: Dilar Dirik
Part 6 Legal Responses to Femicide and Feminicide
Chapter 37:
Femicide and legislationAuthor: Patsilí Toledo Vásquez
Chapter 38:
Femicide and transnational lawAuthors: Isabel López Padilla and Helene Saadoun
Chapter 39:
Investigating femicide/feminicide: The Latin American model protocol Authors: Françoise Roth, Mariela Labozzeta and Agustina Rodríguez
Chapter 40:
Femicide and the "heat of passion" criminal doctrineAuthor: Hava Dayan
Chapter 41:
State accountability and feminicide Authors: Cecilia Menjívar and Leydy Diossa-Jimenez
Part 7 Social Responses to Femicide and Feminicide
Chapter 42:
Colonial femicide: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada Author: Robyn Bourgeois
Chapter 43:
Witnessing across borders: Truth-telling about feminicides in México and the MMIWG2S in Canada and the U.S.Author: Cynthia Bejarano
Chapter 44:
North American necropolitics and gender: On #BlackLivesMatter and Black femicideAuthor: Shatema Threadcraft
Chapter 45:
Femicide, digital activism, and the #NiUnaMenos in ArgentinaAuthors: Francesca Belotti, Francesca Comunello and Consuelo Corradi
Chapter 46:
Dissident memories: Feminicide, memorialisation, and the fight against state cruelty Author: Elva Orozco Mendoza
Part 8 Where to go from here in Research, Policy, and Practice
Chapter 47:
Latin American standardisation of data on feminicide Authors: Silvana Fumega and María Esther Cervantes
Chapter 48:
Human-centered computing and feminicide counterdata science Author: Catherine D'Ignazio
Chapter 49:
Male perpetrators' accounts of femicide: A global systematic review Authors: Dabney P. Evans, Martín Hernán Di Marco, Subasri Narasimhan, Melanie Maino Vieytes, Autumn Curran, and Mia S. White
Chapter 50:
Changing media representations of femicide as primary prevention Authors: Jordan Fairbairn, Ciara Boyd, Yasmin Jiwani, and Myrna Dawson
About the author
Myrna Dawson is Professor of Sociology and Research Leadership Chair, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph. She is the Founder and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence (CSSLRV; www.violenceresearch.ca) and the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice & Accountability (CFOJA; www.femicideincanada.ca). For ten years, Dawson was a Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice (2008-2018). She has spent more than two decades researching social and legal responses to violence with emphasis on violence against women and children, femicide, and filicide.
Saide Mobayed Vega is a researcher interested in the intersections between human rights, violence against women, digital technologies, and data. Her research traces how feminicide is recounted across scales by zooming in on global practices of data collection and local data activism, with a focus on Mexico. In 2017, she co-founded the Femi(ni)cide Watch Platform with the UN Studies Association. She is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Cambridge.
Summary
This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.
