About the Book
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 challenges, and current and future priorities to identify where we need to go from here to prevent femicide/feminicide specifically and male violence against women and girls overall.
This transnational, multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral handbook will contribute to research, policy, and practice globally at a time when it is needed the most. It brings a visible, global focus to the growing concern about femicide/feminicide, underscoring the importance of adopting a human rights framework in working towards its prevention, in an increasingly unstable global world for women and girls.
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
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.
