Contesting Femicide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting Femicide write by Adrian Howe. This book was released on 2018-09-03. Contesting Femicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law reforms as construing it as a site on which to contest gender and more particularly, gendered constructions of women’s experiences. Over the last 30 to 40 years, feminist law scholars and activists have launched scathing trans-jurisdictional critiques of the operation of provocation defences in hundreds of femicide cases. The evidence unearthed by feminist scholars that these defences operate in profoundly sexed ways is unequivocal. Accordingly, femicide cases have become critically important sites for feminist engagement and intervention across numerous jurisdictions. Exploring an area of criminal law that was not one of Smart’s own focal concerns, this book both honours and extends Smart’s work by approaching femicide as a site of engagement and counter-discourse that calls into question hegemonic representations of gendered relationships. Femicide cases thus provide a way to continue the endlessly valuable discursive work Smart advocated and practised in other fields of law: both in articulating alternative accounts of gendered relationships and in challenging law’s power to disqualify women’s experiences of violence while privileging men’s feelings and rights.
Intimate Partner Femicide
Intimate Partner Femicide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intimate Partner Femicide write by Bethany Wilkinson. This book was released on 2024-11-27. Intimate Partner Femicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through in-depth, critical analysis of judicial transcripts, this book demonstrates that legal understandings of intimate partner homicide continue to be based upon outdated notions of 'couple conflict' and and calls for the re-alignment of judicial understandings with feminist understandings of intimate partner violence.
Femicide, Gender and Violence
Femicide, Gender and Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Femicide, Gender and Violence write by Daniela Bandelli. This book was released on 2017-03-21. Femicide, Gender and Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses of contestation on the part of family activists, men’s rights campaigners and divorced fathers’ groups. Two counter-discourses emerge. The first is what the author terms an ‘ideology narrative’, for which discourses built around the conceptual category of ‘gender’ normalize simplistic representations of relationships between men and women. The second is a ‘female violence discourse’, which sheds light on under-represented aggressor-victim relations and modifies dominant representations of femininity and masculinity. The author argues that integrating these two discourses into public debates helps to reappropriate the complexity and biological dimensions of (violent) relationships between men and women, often overshadowed by gender/feminist perspectives. In this way, she concludes, we can address neglected social issues that contribute to violence beyond gender. This thought-provoking book will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, critical discourse studies and gender.
The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide
The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide write by Myrna Dawson. This book was released on 2023-05-31. The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Femicide
Femicide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Femicide write by Jill Radford. This book was released on 1992. Femicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an anthology of articles analyzing femicide - the misogynist killing of women by men - in the U.S., U.K., and India. The articles in Part 1 explore the history of femicide, demonstrating that it is as old as patriarchy itself. Part 2 explodes the myth that the home provides a safe haven for women. In Part 3 the complex interactions of racism and femicide are explored, showing that femicide is no respecter of race, class or culture. Part 4 concentrates on media representations of femicide, showing that media generally fail to identify the sexual politics of femicide, and often sympathize with the male murderer at the expense of the female victim. Part 5 looks at the response of the criminal justice system to femicide, while Part 6 discusses the ways in which women have begun to fight back.
