Abstract: Mexican poetry in recent years is characterized by the decentralization of some literary practices that have to do with the conflict that occurs on the US-Mexico border. From the work of Heriberto Yépez, Por una poética antes del paleolítico y después de la propaganda (2000), to Esther M....

"To reach the United States, many Central American women migrants cross Mexico, where feminicide and the disappearance of women have reached alarmingly high levels. Numerous actors and institutions are responsible for the violence against women and migrants: government officials, smugglers, and drug...

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium invites scholars to examine early modern women's agency from a transnational perspective. Conversations about women's agency continue to ripple across the world, from new, passionate campaigns in Mexico and Poland that have fought to address feminicide and se...

Resumen El autor ilustra este ensayo con el caso Véliz Franco (Guatemala, diciembre de 2001), el cual descarna la brutalidad de la agresión, la escasa información académica y forense sobre el feminicidio adolescente y la inercia estatal por hallar a los responsables de esta manifestación de homicid...

This academic exercise is based on the state of the art on feminicide in six Latin American countries, including Colombia, over the past two decades to show the need to propose a definition of feminicide, not as an aggravating aspect of homicide but as a separate offense under Colombian law. It was...

This article was originally a joint paper given at a round table on Latin American cinema. It looks at Muere Monstruo Muere, a film by Argentinian director Alejandro Fadel, from different perspectives. The plot unfolds over a series of murders of women whose beheaded bodies are discovered in the pro...

Ce mémoire est une étude exploratoire de l’analyse que font des femmes urbaines politisées de la ville de Mexico de la violence faite aux femmes au Mexique. 12 femmes ont accepté de me confier leur réflexion sur les diverses formes de violence et leur cheminement personnel face aux problèmes qui en...

Se analizan los tipos de violencia: doméstica, institucional y feminicida, usando el concepto de "violencia de género contra las mujeres", en combinación con las dimensiones de la violencia propuestas por Johan Galtung: interpersonal, estructural y cultural/simbólica, para demostrar que la violencia...

Cet article présent l’une des séries photographiques de l’artiste Hanna Ramone : Le Jardin perdu. La série construit une réflexion sur le problème social du féminicide. Ce phénomène affecte les femmes de tous âges et de toutes nationalités, étant pour la plupart impuni. Dans Le Jardin perdu naît le...

La ubicación geográfico-político–económico- social de Santa Teresa, la ciudad-protagonista de la novela 2666 de Roberto Bolaño, es conspicua; el presente ensayo analiza los feminicidios descritos en “La parte de los crímenes” de esta novela desde la perspectiva de la ubicación espacial que contiene...

Law 26485, on the full protection for the prevention, sanction and eradication of violence against women, amounted to the formal recognition of male violence as a matter of state in Argentina, but not the implementation of public policies to deal with this issue. In order to ascertain the State’s re...

At this beginning of XXIth century, Mexico is the theater of a fervent violence, boundless and barbarian violence. With war between drug cartels and government, reprisal between cartels, feminicide of Ciudad Juárez, the violence declines in all of its aspects and extends of the North to the whole co...

En el presente artículo se establece un análisis de la normatividad creada para erradicar la violencia de género contra la mujer, abordando principalmente las implicaciones legales a través de la creación de conductas punibles que sancionan el delito de feminicidio; se desarrolla un paralelo entre e...

This article aims to analyze the dimensions of gender-based institutional violence against women —manifested as systemic sexual feminicide and sexual torture– in paradigmatic cases of gender-based violence against women in Mexico that have been reviewed by the Inter-American Human Rights System.

Resumo: Como observa Alexandre Júnior (1998), no prefácio da Retórica, houve uma explosão dos estudos retóricos nas últimas décadas. Nesse sentido, muitos estudiosos do discurso têm voltado seus olhares para as questões de retórica, muitas vezes seguindo os passos de Aristóteles, que a define como a...

Cet article analyse, d’un point de vue anthropologique et féministe, les propositions de classification des féminicides, telles qu’elles ont été discutées au Brésil, et qui ont donné lieu à une nouvelle qualification juridique inscrite dans le code pénal. L’auteur démontre l’importance d’une dénomin...

Throughout this article we intend to show how different women artists have used their body as a canvas of expression. Their dissident bodies, opened and taken to the extreme, will be subject of representation and self-affirmation, through which you will empower and resist against the considered patr...

Si la famille est en général synonyme d’intimité et de relations de confiance, elle peut également être un lieu d’abus, de contrôle ou de violences. Les diverses formes de violences qui se déroulent dans la sphère privée ont été dénoncées dès les années 1970 par les mouvements féministes. Elles ont...

O primeiro debate trata do fenômeno chamado feminicídio, no México, em especial, na Ciudad Juarez, expostas pela doutora Iris Rocío Santillán Ramirez, trazendo dados comparativos entre cidades da América Latina. Doutora Andréa Nocchi aborda, por sua vez, a dramática situação do trabalho escravo no B...

The European Parliament (EP) maintains relations with almost all third countries in the world, including the European Union (EU) strategic partners, such as Mexico. However, the EP’s influence on EU external relations remains unclear in the literature, especially when acting as a guardian of human r...

This article contains reflections on gender violence against women in Mexico, Spain and Guatemala and the transformation of the problem from a private into a public one. This change is partly due to formal complaints and demands made by feminist movements for intervention by their governments. Viole...

Abstract The increase in violence rates in countries such as Colombia and Mexico has had a differential impact on women, expressed through multiple forms, including its larger scale expression, feminicide. However, its discrimination background has been made invisible by the different actors who hol...

En el Perú, la discrepancia en las cifras oficiales sobre feminicidios –variable que ha incluido solo feminicidios y no tentativas pese a la delgada línea que los separa en términos de la intencionalidad del victimario– ha llevado a una lectura incorrecta y parcial del fenómeno. Para superar este pr...

The extreme violence against women, considered as a criminal act , has been bearly visible, but it is the source that generates the most detriment and prejudice to the rights of women. In terms of this universal view, the conduct of extreme violence against women is designated as «Femicide/Feminicid...