femi-(in Latinfēmina"woman") +-cide(afterhomicide) — more atfeminineentry1 First Known Use 1976, in the meaning definedabove Time Traveler The first known use offemicidewas in 1976 See more words from the same year Rhymes forfemicide ...
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It seems we live under siege … and perhaps we do …María Socorro Tabuenca CórdobaCordoba, M. S. T. (2011). Ciudad Juarez, Femicide and the State. In Duenas Gabriela Polit& Maria Helena (ed.) Meaning of Violence in Contemporary Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan....
Femicide can also refer to individual crimes that make up a larger pattern and are directed toward women. This can include situations of spousal abuse, targeting a woman in a relationship, which ultimately escalates until the woman is murdered. There are also certain cultures or countries in whi...
The Palermo research unit1 was entrusted with analysing narrations of femicide in juridical discourse, to observe the structures of meaning used to represent extreme violence against women in the «juridical field» (Bourdieu 1986).2 The study's theoretical frame analyses the use of the term ...
IPF is a specific social issue with a strong relationship to intimate partner abuse (IPA) and violence against women (VAW), and in this respect there are already multiple discourses in circulation which give meaning to the fatal violence. Some discourses are more dominant than others and it is...
The term "femicide" was introduced by feminist writer and activist Diana Russell, who used it in the 1970s to refer, in an alternative way, to the homicide with female victims, giving it a specific meaning. The use of the term by Russell was motivated by the political intention to show...
This essay argues that the novel's treatment of bodies reveals a cultural discourse that produces nonmasculine bodies not only as commodities, or valuable objects through which masculinity can be reproduced, but as empty vessels to be imbued with masculine meaning for the conti...
M.S. Córdoba TabuencaPalgrave Macmillan USCordoba, M. S. T. (2011). Ciudad Juarez, Femicide and the State. In Duenas Gabriela Polit& Maria Helena (ed.) Meaning of Violence in Contemporary Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
IPF is a specific social issue with a strong relationship to intimate partner abuse (IPA) and violence against women (VAW), and in this respect there are already multiple discourses in circulation which give meaning to the fatal violence. Some discourses are more dominant than others and it is...