Cause of death: femicide

Fitz-Gibbon, Kate and Walklate, Sandra ORCID: 0000-0002-1628-9713 (2023) Cause of death: femicide. Mortality, 28 (2). pp. 236-249.

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Abstract

Labelled ‘the shadow pandemic’ by UN Women, violence against women received considerable global public attention during 2020–21. Underpinning this moment of public concern, there lies a substantial history of efforts to document the nature of, and campaign against, the extent of violence against women globally. This is also the case in relation to femicide. Whilst we recognise that this is a contested term, for the purposes of this paper we use femicide to refer to the killing of women and girls because they are female by male violence. Femicide, as a death to be specifically counted in law only exists in a small number of jurisdictions. Where it is so recognised, primarily in South American countries as feminicidio, such deaths represent only the tip of the iceberg of such killings globally. This paper, in drawing on empirical data from a range of different sources (including administrative data, media analysis, and Femicide Observatory data) gathered throughout 2020, considers: what it means to call a death femicide, what implications might follow if all the deaths of women at the hands of men were counted as femicide, and the extent to which extraordinary times have any bearing on this kind of ordinary death.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Violence Research, 5 Gender Equality, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	01 Feb 2023 14:20
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2024 09:55
DOI:	10.1080/13576275.2022.2155509
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168074