Search Results for Femicide

... ante el autoritarismo global . Bellaterra . Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability . ( n.d. ). History of the term femicide . https://femicideincanada.ca/what-is-femicide/history/ Chion , M. ( 2012 ). The three listening modes . In J.   Sterne (Ed...

... slow to adapt, the media have played an ambivalent and often harmful role in shaping public perception ( Kouroutsidou & Kakarouna, 2021 ). Greek television, newspapers and online platforms routinely sensationalise femicide cases, constructing narratives that oscillate between voyeurism and moral...

.../spousal rape during the biennium 2020 and 2021, including the Covid-19 pandemic in Greece . Journal of Interpersonal Violence , 40 ( 1–2 ), 370 – 396 . Kogiou , A. ( 2025 ). The effects of the Greek’Metoo’movement on representations of femicide in the news media and social media...

...Abstract This introductory chapter situates Voices of Resistance: Music, Femicide, and Gender Justice in Southern Europe within a comparative and transnational framework, examining how music in Spain and Greece has become a vital feminist response to femicide and gender-based violence...

... and sustain public attention, but it cannot ensure consistent implementation of policies or prevent institutional failures such as inadequate protection measures or uneven judicial responses. In Greece, this tension appears differently: music often fills the silence left by the absence of femicide as a legal...

...-25n-ahora-espana-ya-otra/2461070.shtml Ruiz Castillo , A. ( 2006 ). Las mujeres en la España contemporánea: educación sentimental y cultura patriarcal . Cátedra . Russell , D. E. H. ( 1976, March ). The politics of femicide . Paper presented at the International Tribunal...

...Femicide – the killing of women and girls – has gained increasing prominence on global and national agendas since the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, amongst others, started to embrace femicide as a worldwide issue. The term femicide, whilst contested, was first deployed by Diana...

...Non-intimate femicides, particularly ‘stranger’ femicides, spark exceptional public fear. However, there has been little study of what constitutes ‘non-intimate’ femicide and how to distinguish it from ‘intimate’ femicide. Combining scholarship on the sociologies of family and intimacy...

...The coronial inquest process is future-oriented and provides an important opportunity to explore and better understand why deaths, and specifically femicides, occur and how knowledge, processes and responses may be improved to avoid similar deaths in future. The inquest process gathers up...

..., reflecting the scale of domestic abuse-related deaths, around 1,000 DARDR had been completed. DARDR could make an important contribution to both femicide measurement (e.g. by documenting the domestic abuse-related deaths of women and girls) and prevention (e.g. by generating learning about case circumstances...

...This chapter examines how coronial investigations of femicide hinge on the early identification and classification of death as related to domestic and family violence. It argues that coronial categorisation performs instrumental socio-legal work, structuring the form and outcomes of coroners...

...Technologies are readily weaponised by perpetrators of domestic and family violence to harass, monitor, restrict, coerce, and control targets. Awareness of these practices is growing, but less explored is how digital coercive control can potentially signal risk of femicide (and filicide). Emphasis...

... of understanding histories of intimate partner violence prior to women’s deaths by suicide. This chapter will document the extent to which women’s deaths by suicide, where there is a history of violence, are included within the frame of femicide counting, and how this may be more effectively achieved...

...Saide Mobayed Vega (2023) has observed femicide is a meeting place between academics and activists in which passions can run high. In overviewing recent developments in this field, Vega (2023) deploys the concept of ‘boundary objects’; defined by Star and Griesemar (1989 , p. 393) as objects...

... narratives. Media reports on domestic abuse and femicides often framed such cases as isolated incidents or as the result of individual pathology, relying on stereotypes that concealed the structural nature of the violence. Common tropes included ‘crimes of passion,’ temporary insanity or the perpetrator’s...

... women and girls. However, what necessarily constitutes a ‘violent’ act which ‘reflects existing asymmetry[ies] in the power relations between men and women’? Online gender-based harassment, for example, reflects these power imbalances but so does domestic physical abuse ( Stark, 2006 , 2007 ). Femicide...

..., 2013 . Government Gazette. Republic of South Africa . ( 2020 ). National strategic plan on gender-based violence & femicide violence & femicide – Human dignity and healing, safety, freedom & equality in our lifetime . Communication Office . Rummel , R. ( 1994 ). Death...

... by sexual violence. Although there is underreporting of this type of violence, South Africa has today the highest rates of femicide in the world with three women killed every day by an intimate partner ( South African Medical Research Center, 2025 ). Femicide refers to gender-based murdering and happens...