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 article aims to reflect on the issue of gender-based violence in a Psychoanalytical feminist perspective which, by identifying and enhancing meaningful dissemination, i.e. working with the word, attempts to deconstruct gender notions from a political dimension and to record the norms of hegemoni...

Despite the existence of public policies aimed at preventing violence against women in public space, such as street bullying, work-related or school/academic harassment, the invisibility of femicides committed in this context, known as non-intimate femicide, persists. Despite the legal provision, th...

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 article addresses one of the most common and extreme manifestations of gender-based violence: femicide, regarded as an undeniable breach of women’s fundamental guarantees because of their generic status. It is precisely because this violation of women’s human rights still lacks social recognitio...

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,...

En el presente trabajo se valora críticamente la forma en que se enfrenta la violencia contra la mujer, a través de su criminalización en leyes o tipos penales que la criminalizan de manera especial o específica. En una primera parte del trabajo se analiza, desde la perspectiva de género, la natural...

The morning of 20 January 2019 in the city of Ibarra — Ecuador, citizens organised social media to terrorise, assault and expel Venezuelan immigrants from their homes by announcing a ‘social cleansing’ immediately after the femicide of Diana Carolina. The aim of this work is to analyse the collectiv...

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...

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...

In 2014, 67 women were murdered in Chile due to gender reasons; however, only 40 were reported as femicide under current legislation that punishes only those murders of women by their partners or former partners, excluding other types of gender violence, resulting in death. This omission adds the fa...

Accessing official data on cases of femicide is not an easy task in Uruguay, and when accessed, there are discordant data. This issue has serious repercussions, both for the awareness of the population and for the design of public policies and the actions of civil society in the face of the phenomen...

‘titrebRésumé’/titrebBasé on the transcription of two interviews with feminist academics and activists Marcela Lagarde (Mexico) and Montserrat Sagot (Costa Rica), both of whom were pioneers in Latin American reflection on femicide/femicide, the text seeks to answer the following questions: what is t...

The crime of femicide leads to the deterioration and fragmentation of the cell of Ecuadorian society. Parents, children, siblings and grandparents are indirect victims of the aftermath of violence and the death of women because of their gender status. The family experiences the effects of sexual exp...

The purpose of this article is to reflect on femicide, which is considered a gender-based crime. Provides a feminist analysis to understand the conceptual dimensions of the criminal offence; it includes the main arguments leading to its criminalisation in Latin American countries; examines different...

This article shows that social stratification originates with our existence of religion, ideology, artistic creation, language, empirical science and formal science throughout history, with theoretical currents of sociology and psychology, has demonstrated the stigmatisation of whole social groups,...

La presencia de un arma de fuego en situaciones de violencia íntima incrementa la probabilidad de la victimización fatal. No obstante, en Argentina ninguna investigación completa se ha hecho sobre las armas de fuego en femicidios. Este trabajo exploratorio indaga sobre el rol de las armas de fuego e...

The monograph we present have a range of bands from geopolitics and geocultures where emotions, protests and collective actions flood the current processes of social structuring. Remote suffering, femicide, repression, racialising segregation, among other ways of suffering, are dialected with resist...

This article begins with a slight mention of the background to Law No 27.499, mainly the impact on Argentine society of Micaela García’s femicide, and the consequent struggle for the visibility of inequalities and violence carried out by movements of women and other sexual dissidents in our country....

The objective of this contribution is to reach a critical analysis of the regulatory regulation of femicide in Chile. After taking account of the confusion that exists from the definition of the phenomenon, the core part of the work will illustrate different legislation in force in other countries,...

The progressive criminalisation of femicide throughout Latin America is the result of many struggles that have been carried out by academics and civil society. This important regulatory step highlights the seriousness of the problem of gender-based violence against women. However, we must question w...

Un balance de la agenda política feminista resulta indispensable a la hora de intentar un diagnóstico acerca de la relación entre prácticas comunicacionales, medios de comunicación y feminismos en América Latina. La instalación de la agenda de género en los medios de comunicación se logra a través d...

Understanding the challenges of the entrance of art in today’s schools raises questions of what teachers say, think, and do when they engage in art practices. A proposal identifying our problem, inspired by the theory of estates and the themes of justification, can introduce the plurality of worlds...

Interview of Ana Carcedo on how the State could prevent, counteract or prevent violence against women.