A stylistic analysis of Kaláshnikov heart (2009) by Alejan-dro Páez Varela highlights the highly elliptical degree of the novel: the targeting of characters is external, logical relationships are implicit and the style is largely paratlactic. It seems to respond to an ethical choice by distancing it...

22.03.2018 Violences d’Etat, violences de genre. Invitée : Perrine Lachenal Lectures communes : Marylène Lapalus. 2015. Feminicidio / femicidio: Les enjeux théoriques et politiques d'un discours définitoire de la violence contre les femmes. Enfances, Familles, Generations, vol 22. Lectures supplémen...

The next investigation seeks to determine where Chilean digital media are failing to build news about femicide, focusing on eight cases of murders of women in the hands of their spouses, spouses or cohabitants in March 2016. To this end, the information treatment given to the subject by each medium...

This work analyses three of the issues currently of greatest social and scientific concern in the area of gender-based violence in general and so-called gender femicides (violent death of women executed by their partner) in particular. A first part is devoted to trying to assess, beyond what can be...

Knowledge of the characteristics of the different types of femicide can contribute to improving prevention strategies in the field of violence against women. Based on the analysis of 307 judgments in Spain concerning femicide, consumed or attempted, the differences between 146 previous femicides (FI...

We propose an alternative way of reporting and publicising femicide violence in the Chiapas region through the Arte Acción performance and activism platform. Three parts are made up of this article: the situation of femicide in Chiapas and our methodology from the erotic, Decolonial and pedagogical...

In Peru, the discrepancy in the official figures on femicide — a variable which has included only femicides and not attempts despite the narrow line separating them in terms of the intention of the victim — has led to an incorrect and partial reading of the phenomenon. To overcome this problem, we c...

This article proposes a reading of Roberto Bolaño’s wild detectives (1998) on the basis of an analysis of certain processes of unfitness and spectrality that are passing through, cracking and ever interrupting the multiplicity of stories of the novel. We focus attention on one gesture, the poet caes...

The concept of necropolitics, launched by Achille Mbembe in 2003, has had an increasing influence within various disciplines but not within arts, aesthetics and cultural studies. This is the point of departure for my article, which simply wants to address the following questions: What does a contem...

The women's movement in both Colombia and the world has a long tradition in the use of law. This work, in addition to dialogue with the literature on this subject, aims to analyze another aspect of the relationship of criminal law with women's movements that focuses its gaze, not on...

The types of violence are analysed: domestic, institutional and feminicide, using the concept of “gender-based violence against women”, in combination with the dimensions of violence proposed by Johan Galtung: interpersonal, structural and cultural/symbolic, to demonstrate that gender-based violence...

This article establishes an analysis of the normality created to eradicate gender-based violence against women, mainly addressing the legal implications through the creation of punishable conduct sanctioning the crime of femicide; there is a parallel between the criminal type of femicide created by...

This article highlights the differences between the literary text of the author Emilia Pardo Bazán entitled El pardo Bazán, published in 1893, and her adaptation to Franco cinema, with the same title, headed by José L. Sáenz de Heredia in 1961. In both cases, although logically different, it is poss...

The concept of Feminicidio was developed in Latin America by ethnologa and anthropologa Marcela Lagarde, specifically for the case of women killed in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico). The term has been extended in other countries and in Colombia the aim of the reform of the Criminal Code (Law 1257 of 2008) is...

The purpose of this article is femicide considered to be a gender-based crime. Provides a feminist analysis of the conceptual dimensions of the criminal offence; it includes the main arguments explored in Latin America, examines different aspects defended by feminist and women’s movement activists,...

This article looks at four statistically key factors for understanding the etiology of femicide in Spain: nationality of victims and victimaries, suicidality of victimaries and breakdown and aggression in couples. The analysis carried out shows that femicides in Spain contain specific socio-cultural...

Collective book studying femicide from a multidisciplinary point of view.

This is an investigation into the processes of building reality in Uruguay’s written press into femicide committed against teenagers who were temporarily close to one another and who had a long and prominent presence in various mass local media. The two events were followed up in the two most popula...

The speech of femicide in these years brings with it the obligation to see beyond a policing issue or the murder of a woman, since, in addition to crime, femicides must be addressed as a social problem, including aspects of gender inequality, inequality, discrimination and stereotypes. This article...

Structural gender-based violence is not limited to the private sphere, but affects women in all spheres of their lives. They are, in most cases, in disadvantaged, subordinate and high-risk positions simply because they are women in a society that reproduces a patriarchal androcentrist system. Since...

The discrepancy in official statistics regarding feminicide in Peru –a variable that has included only feminicide and not attempted feminicide, in spite of the thin line that divides them in terms of the aggressor’s intentionality– has led to an incorrect and partial reading of this phenomenon. To o...

The enactment of criminal laws against femicide entails several problems for criminal investigations. Based on a sample of interviews with prosecutors and forensic specialists in the four judicial districts in the city of Lima, this article addresses the main problems in the application of the femic...

This paper is intended as a reflection to provide knowledge on the impact of the media, in particular printed, on gender violence.

While the concepts of femicidio and feminicidio are now commonly used in the Latin American continent with regard to violence against women, reservations against their use, particularly from the legal, political and religious spheres, remind us that, on the one hand, the use of these neologisms of s...