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.
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
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.
