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Book Synopsis

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

No country is free from femicide/feminicide, which represents the tip of the iceberg in male violence against women and girls. Therefore, it is crucial and timely to better understand how states and their citizens are experiencing and responding to femicide/feminicide globally. Through the work of internationally recognised feminist and grassroots activists, researchers, and academics from around the world, this handbook offers the first in-depth, global examination of the growing social movement to address femicide and feminicide. It includes the current state of knowledge and the prevalence of femicide/feminicide and its characteristics across countries and world regions, as well as the social and legal responses to these killings. The contributions contained here look at the accomplishments of the past four decades, ongoing challen

Table 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 movement

Authors: Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed Vega

Part 2 Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives

Chapter 2: A global archaeology of femi(ni)cide

Author: 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 model

Authors: Emma Fulu, Victoria Alondra, Xian Warner, Chay Brown and Loksee Leung

Chapter 5: Femicide and intersectionality

Author: Lorena Sosa

Chapter 6: Femicide/feminicide and colonialism

Authors: 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]cide

Author: 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 feminicide

Authors: 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 Afghanistan

Authors: Mohammad Ibrahim Dariush, Farzana Adell, and Angelika Zecha

Chapter 13: Femicide in Australia

Authors: Patricia Cullen, Jenna Price and Natasha Walker

Chapter 14: Feminicide in Brazil

Author: Joana Perrone

Chapter 15: Femicide in Canada

Authors: Wendy Aujla, Myrna Dawson, Crystal J. Giesbrecht, Nneka MacGregor, Shiva Nourpanah

Chapter 16: Femicide in Europe

Authors: Marceline Naudi, Monika Schröttle, Elina Kofou, Maria José Magalhães, and Christiana Kouta

Chapter 17: Femicide in Georgia

Author: Tamar Dekanosidze

Chapter 18: Femicide in India

Author: 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 Society

Authors: Rafah Anabtawi, Iman Jabbour, and Abeer Baker

Chapter 21: Femicide in Russian Federation

Authors: Ksenia Meshkova and Lyubava Malysheva

Chapter 22: Femicide in South Africa

Authors: 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 Turkey

Authors: Ceyda Ulukaya and Büşra Yalçınöz Uçan

Chapter 25: Femicide in the United Kingdom

Author: Karen Ingala Smith

Chapter 26: Femicide in the United States

Authors: 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 criminalisation

Authors: Navtej Purewal and Lisa Eklund

Chapter 29: Systemic sexual feminicide: Colonial scars in bodies and territories

Author: Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso

Chapter 30: ‘Honour’-based femicide

Author: 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 Africa

Author: Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki

Chapter 33: Armed conflict femicide

Author: 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 Mexico

Authors: Sayak Valencia and Liliana Falcón

Chapter 36: Femi(ni)cide as war as femi(ni)cide: Violence and justice-seeking beyond borders

Author: Dilar Dirik

Part 6 Legal Responses to Femicide and Feminicide

Chapter 37: Femicide and legislation

Author: Patsilí Toledo Vásquez

Chapter 38: Femicide and transnational law

Authors: 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 doctrine

Author: 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 femicide

Author: Shatema Threadcraft

Chapter 45: Femicide, digital activism, and the #NiUnaMenos in Argentina

Authors: 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

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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

      No country is free from femicide/feminicide, which represents the tip of the iceberg in male violence against women and girls. Therefore, it is crucial and timely to better understand how states and their citizens are experiencing and responding to femicide/feminicide globally. Through the work of internationally recognised feminist and grassroots activists, researchers, and academics from around the world, this handbook offers the first in-depth, global examination of the growing social movement to address femicide and feminicide. It includes the current state of knowledge and the prevalence of femicide/feminicide and its characteristics across countries and world regions, as well as the social and legal responses to these killings. The contributions contained here look at the accomplishments of the past four decades, ongoing challen

      Table 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 movement

      Authors: Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed Vega

      Part 2 Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives

      Chapter 2: A global archaeology of femi(ni)cide

      Author: 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 model

      Authors: Emma Fulu, Victoria Alondra, Xian Warner, Chay Brown and Loksee Leung

      Chapter 5: Femicide and intersectionality

      Author: Lorena Sosa

      Chapter 6: Femicide/feminicide and colonialism

      Authors: 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]cide

      Author: 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 feminicide

      Authors: 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 Afghanistan

      Authors: Mohammad Ibrahim Dariush, Farzana Adell, and Angelika Zecha

      Chapter 13: Femicide in Australia

      Authors: Patricia Cullen, Jenna Price and Natasha Walker

      Chapter 14: Feminicide in Brazil

      Author: Joana Perrone

      Chapter 15: Femicide in Canada

      Authors: Wendy Aujla, Myrna Dawson, Crystal J. Giesbrecht, Nneka MacGregor, Shiva Nourpanah

      Chapter 16: Femicide in Europe

      Authors: Marceline Naudi, Monika Schröttle, Elina Kofou, Maria José Magalhães, and Christiana Kouta

      Chapter 17: Femicide in Georgia

      Author: Tamar Dekanosidze

      Chapter 18: Femicide in India

      Author: 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 Society

      Authors: Rafah Anabtawi, Iman Jabbour, and Abeer Baker

      Chapter 21: Femicide in Russian Federation

      Authors: Ksenia Meshkova and Lyubava Malysheva

      Chapter 22: Femicide in South Africa

      Authors: 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 Turkey

      Authors: Ceyda Ulukaya and Büşra Yalçınöz Uçan

      Chapter 25: Femicide in the United Kingdom

      Author: Karen Ingala Smith

      Chapter 26: Femicide in the United States

      Authors: 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 criminalisation

      Authors: Navtej Purewal and Lisa Eklund

      Chapter 29: Systemic sexual feminicide: Colonial scars in bodies and territories

      Author: Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso

      Chapter 30: ‘Honour’-based femicide

      Author: 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 Africa

      Author: Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki

      Chapter 33: Armed conflict femicide

      Author: 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 Mexico

      Authors: Sayak Valencia and Liliana Falcón

      Chapter 36: Femi(ni)cide as war as femi(ni)cide: Violence and justice-seeking beyond borders

      Author: Dilar Dirik

      Part 6 Legal Responses to Femicide and Feminicide

      Chapter 37: Femicide and legislation

      Author: Patsilí Toledo Vásquez

      Chapter 38: Femicide and transnational law

      Authors: 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 doctrine

      Author: 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 femicide

      Author: Shatema Threadcraft

      Chapter 45: Femicide, digital activism, and the #NiUnaMenos in Argentina

      Authors: 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

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