ABSTRACT
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
part 1|14 pages
Introduction
part 2|74 pages
Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives
chapter 8|9 pages
Systems of Power and Femicide
part 3|37 pages
Data and Methodological Considerations
chapter 11|12 pages
Femicide/Feminicide Observatories and Watches
part 4|171 pages
Femicide and Feminicide Across World Regions and Countries
part 5|109 pages
Understanding Femicide and Feminicide Subtypes and Contexts
chapter 28|10 pages
Population Control and Sex-Selective Abortion in China and India
part 6|54 pages
Legal Responses to Femicide and Feminicide
chapter 39|10 pages
The Latin American Model Protocol for the Investigation of Gender-Related Killings of Women (Femicide/Feminicide)
part 7|53 pages
Social Responses to Femicide and Feminicide
chapter 43|10 pages
Witnessing Across Borders
chapter 46|11 pages
Dissident Memories
part 8|48 pages
Where to Go from Here in Research, Policy, and Practice