ABSTRACT
This chapter explores femicide, the killing of women by men. It looks at the critical importance of a feminist analysis making connections between killings of women and different forms of men's fatal violence against women over time and across cultural and geographic boundaries. The Femicide Census is a sophisticated electronic database that allows data to be collated and disaggregated for analysis to identify patterns. It contains a wide range of information on over 900 women who have been killed by fatal male violence from 2009 to 2014. The concept of 'femicide' takes 'isolated incidents' and looks at them as a collective phenomenon, in doing so allows us to see men's fatal violence against women, not as a matter of individual pathology, and one that extends beyond the most commonly identified form, intimate partner homicide. The word femicide addresses the bias that renders the killings of women and girls invisible and brings fatal violence against women into view.
