Femicide definitions

Grzyb, Magdalena; Naudi, Marceline; Servós, Chaime Marcuello

doi:10.51952/9781447347163.ch002

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“…There have been debates over the term femicide and the difficulties in establishing a common agreed-upon definition. In this paper, the definition offered by Grzyb, Naudi, and Marcuello-Servós ( 2018) is used that defines femicide as the killing of women because they are women, emphasizing the role that their gender plays in making them vulnerable to such extreme manifestation of VAW that happens globally [26]. When himpathy is shown, it is directed to the man whose 'honor' was jeopardized by a woman, often his relative.…”

Section: Himpathy and Gheiratmentioning

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Legitimating Misogyny and Femicide: Legal Himpathy and (State) Violence against Women in Iran

Rahbari

2023

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On the fifth of February 2022, a man gruesomely murdered his seventeen-year-old wife, Mona Heydari, in a city in a southern province of Iran. The man then shocked bystanders by strolling in public spaces while carrying his wife’s severed head. This paper focuses on the case of Mona’s killing and investigates the state, media, and online user-created reactions to the incident. The paper aims to (i) offer an in-depth exploration of himpathy with the perpetrator and (ii) investigate the role of the law and the state in the normalization and perpetuation of violence committed by men against women in the name of ‘honor.’ This paper extends the usage of the concept of himpathy (by Manne, 2017) as a cluster of biases that direct sympathy towards men who commit violence against women to the institutional and legal realms. It also draws on the traditional notion of gheirat, referring to protecting one’s ‘honor,’ and explores its role in Iranian law to show that the Iranian legal system hinges upon it, therefore legitimating misogyny and femicide.

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Legitimating Misogyny and Femicide: Legal Himpathy and (State) Violence against Women in Iran

Rahbari

2023

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“…39 This conceptualisation of feminicide violence differs from existing others, such as Russell's and Radford's, in one substantial way. It touches upon the notion of impunity, 40 namely the negligent role played by the state in perpetuating patriarchy and violence, as it covertly accepts the commission of such crime and fails to condemn it. 41 As a result of this, feminicide is viewed as a state crime.…”

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Moving Towards More Inclusive Definitions of Femicide: Intersectionality and Marginalised Identities

Caterini

2023

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Femicide violence has long been invisible. Drawing on feminist scholarship, this article will discuss existing definitions of femicide that have been key to its recognition as a distinct phenomenon. However, the notion of patriarchy these definitions build upon is not enough to explain the occurrence of such crime causing these definitions to fall into the trap of essentialism. Femicide is the result of multiple intersecting systems of oppression, including race, class, sexuality, disability, and soforth which shape women’s’ experiences in a wide variety of ways. Considering this, the theoretical framework of intersectionality is fundamental to expand definitions of femicide as it recognises that women’s experiences cannot be categorised under the same umbrella, as there exist differences between them. Moreover, because there is a need to move towards more inclusive definitions, such an approach may successfully go beyond the traditional biological sex-based man/woman heteronormative binary. This binary contributes to the marginalisation of identities that are less visible, such as those of transgender women.

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“…'Femicide' was translated into feminicidio by the Mexican feminist Lagarde y de los Rios ( 2008) and used in the Latin American context. Today, however, Latin American scholars use the terms femicide and feminicidio interchangeably (Grzyb and Hernandez, 2015), and even Lagarde calls the phenomenon 'femicide' (Lagarde y de los Rios, 2008). Definitional problems are discussed in Chapter 2.…”

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Research and prevention of femicide across Europe

Weil

2018

Femicide Across Europe

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Femicide definitions

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Legitimating Misogyny and Femicide: Legal Himpathy and (State) Violence against Women in Iran

Legitimating Misogyny and Femicide: Legal Himpathy and (State) Violence against Women in Iran

Moving Towards More Inclusive Definitions of Femicide: Intersectionality and Marginalised Identities

Research and prevention of femicide across Europe

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