The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide

Foreword by Dubravka Simonovic, Former Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences (2015-2021)

Part 1 Introduction

Chapter 1: Femicide and feminicide: A growing global human rights movement

Authors: Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed Vega

Part 2 Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives

Chapter 2: A global archaeology of femi(ni)cide

Author: Saide Mobayed Vega

Chapter 3: Femicide and the global political economy

Authors: Alison Brysk and Vitoria Moreira

Chapter 4: Understanding femicide using a global social ecological model

Authors: Emma Fulu, Victoria Alondra, Xian Warner, Chay Brown and Loksee Leung

Chapter 5: Femicide and intersectionality

Author: Lorena Sosa

Chapter 6: Femicide/feminicide and colonialism

Authors: Paulina Garcia-Del Moral, Dolores Figueroa Romero, Patricia Torres Sandoval, and Laura Hernandez Perez

Chapter 7: Femi[ni]cide and space: Theorising the socio-spatial scripts of femi[ni]cide

Author: Lorena Fuentes

Chapter 8: Systems of power and femicide: The intersections of race, gender, and extremist violence

Authors: Maria N. Scaptura and Brittany E. Hayes

Part 3 Data and Methodological Considerations

Chapter 9: Data sources and challenges in addressing femicide and feminicide

Authors: Angelika Zecha, Naeemah Abrahams, Karine Duhamel, Cristina Fabre, Alejandra Otamendi, Alejandra Rios Cazares, Heidi Stoeckl, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed Vega

Chapter 10: Feminicide data activism

Collectif Feminicides Par Compagnons ou Ex Feminizidmap, Kathomi Gatwiri, Counting Dead Women project, Savia Hasanova, Anna Kapushenko, Lyubava Malysheva, Saide Mobayed Vega, Audrey Mugeni, Counting Dead Women project, Rosalind Page, Black Femicide project, Ivonne Ramirez Ramirez, Ellas Tienen Nombre project, Helena Suarez Val, Feminicidio Uruguay project, Dawn Wilcox, Women Count USA: Femicide Accountability project and Aimee Zambrano Ortiz, Monitor de Femicidios project, Utopix

Chapter 11: Femicide/feminicide observatories and watches

Vathsala Illesinghe, Ahora Que Si Nos Ven, Femi(ni)cide Watch Poland, Feminicidio.net, Observatorio de Feminicidios, Observatorio feminicidios Colombia - Red feminista antimilitarista, Shalva Weil, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed Vega

Part 4 Femicide and Feminicide Across World Regions and Countries

Chapter 12: Femicide in Afghanistan

Authors: Mohammad Ibrahim Dariush, Farzana Adell, and Angelika Zecha

Chapter 13: Femicide in Australia

Authors: Patricia Cullen, Jenna Price and Natasha Walker

Chapter 14: Feminicide in Brazil

Author: Joana Perrone

Chapter 15: Femicide in Canada

Authors: Wendy Aujla, Myrna Dawson, Crystal J. Giesbrecht, Nneka MacGregor, Shiva Nourpanah

Chapter 16: Femicide in Europe

Authors: Marceline Naudi, Monika Schroettle, Elina Kofou, Maria Jose Magalhaes, and Christiana Kouta

Chapter 17: Femicide in Georgia

Author: Tamar Dekanosidze

Chapter 18: Femicide in India

Author: Nishi Mitra vom Berg

Chapter 19: Feminicide in Mexico

Authors: Saide Mobayed Vega, Sonia M. Frias, Fabiola de Lachica Huerta, and Aleida Lujan-Pinelo

Chapter 20: Femicide in Palestinian Society

Authors: Rafah Anabtawi, Iman Jabbour, and Abeer Baker

Chapter 21: Femicide in Russian Federation

Authors: Ksenia Meshkova and Lyubava Malysheva

Chapter 22: Femicide in South Africa

Authors: Nechama Brodie, Shanaaz Mathews, and Naeemah Abrahams

Chapter 23: Femicide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Authors: Emmanuel Rohn and Eric Y. Tenkorang

Chapter 24: Femicide in Turkey

Authors: Ceyda Ulukaya and Buesra Yalcinoez Ucan

Chapter 25: Femicide in the United Kingdom

Author: Karen Ingala Smith

Chapter 26: Femicide in the United States

Authors: Jill Theresa Messing, Millan A. AbiNader, Jesenia Pizarro, April M. Zeoli, Em Loerzel, Tricia Bent-Goodley, and Jacquelyn Campbell

Part 5 Understanding Femicide and Feminicide Subtypes and Contexts

Chapter 27: Intimate femicide/intimate partner femicide

Authors: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree Maher

Chapter 28: Population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India: A feminist critique of criminalisation

Authors: Navtej Purewal and Lisa Eklund

Chapter 29: Systemic sexual feminicide: Colonial scars in bodies and territories

Author: Julia Estela Monarrez Fragoso

Chapter 30: 'Honour'-based femicide

Author: Aisha K. Gill

Chapter 31: Femigenocide

Authors: Rita Laura Segato and Livia Vitenti

Chapter 32: Sex work feminicide and the making of #SayHerName campaign by SWEAT in South Africa

Author: Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki

Chapter 33: Armed conflict femicide

Author: Anna Alvazzi del Frate

Chapter 34: Femicide in the context of gang-related violence in El Salvador

Authors: Silvia Ivette Juarez Barrios and Erika J. Rojas Ospina

Chapter 35: Continuities and discontinuities between the concepts of feminicide and transfeminicide in Mexico

Authors: Sayak Valencia and Liliana Falcon

Chapter 36: Femi(ni)cide as war as femi(ni)cide: Violence and justice-seeking beyond borders

Author: Dilar Dirik

Part 6 Legal Responses to Femicide and Feminicide

Chapter 37: Femicide and legislation

Author: Patsili Toledo Vasquez

Chapter 38: Femicide and transnational law

Authors: Isabel Lopez Padilla and Helene Saadoun

Chapter 39: Investigating femicide/feminicide: The Latin American model protocol

Authors: Francoise Roth, Mariela Labozzeta and Agustina Rodriguez

Chapter 40: Femicide and the "heat of passion" criminal doctrine

Author: Hava Dayan

Chapter 41: State accountability and feminicide

Authors: Cecilia Menjivar and Leydy Diossa-Jimenez

Part 7 Social Responses to Femicide and Feminicide

Chapter 42: Colonial femicide: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada

Author: Robyn Bourgeois

Chapter 43: Witnessing across borders: Truth-telling about feminicides in Mexico and the MMIWG2S in Canada and the U.S.

Author: Cynthia Bejarano

Chapter 44: North American necropolitics and gender: On #BlackLivesMatter and Black femicide

Author: Shatema Threadcraft

Chapter 45: Femicide, digital activism, and the #NiUnaMenos in Argentina

Authors: Francesca Belotti, Francesca Comunello and Consuelo Corradi

Chapter 46: Dissident memories: Feminicide, memorialisation, and the fight against state cruelty

Author: Elva Orozco Mendoza

Part 8 Where to go from here in Research, Policy, and Practice

Chapter 47: Latin American standardisation of data on feminicide

Authors: Silvana Fumega and Maria Esther Cervantes

Chapter 48: Human-centered computing and feminicide counterdata science

Author: Catherine D'Ignazio

Chapter 49: Male perpetrators' accounts of femicide: A global systematic review

Authors: Dabney P. Evans, Martin Hernan Di Marco, Subasri Narasimhan, Melanie Maino Vieytes, Autumn Curran, and Mia S. White

Chapter 50: Changing media representations of femicide as primary prevention

Authors: Jordan Fairbairn, Ciara Boyd, Yasmin Jiwani, and Myrna Dawson