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Femicide or feminicide is the intentional murder that exclusively targets women or girls because of their gender.[1] Causes of femicide include harmful gender roles, gender stereotypes, cultural beliefs such as so-called "honor killings", coercive control, social beliefs such as sati, and masculine hegemony that perpetuates the unequal power between men and women.[1][2][3]
A spouse or partner is responsible for almost 40% of femicides, or homicides of a female victim.[4] Additionally, femicide may be underreported due to insufficient evidence.[5] Femicide often includes domestic violence and forced abortions. In China, femicide occurs as sex-selective abortions, while other cultures use gender-selective infanticide and geronticide to perform femicide.[6]
Until recently, femicide was not considered as a visible phenomenon, but awareness is gradually increasing.[7]
- ^ a b Shalva Weil, "Femicide Across Europe: Research and prevention of femicide across Europe". Research Gate, October 2018.
- ^ Shalva Weil and Nitri Misha, "Femicide of Girls in Contemporary India". Researchgate, January 2016
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- ^ Johnson, Holly; Eriksson, Li; Paul Mazerolle; Wortley, Richard (January 2019). "Intimate Femicide: The Role of Coercive Control". Feminist Criminology. 14 (1): 3–23. doi:10.1177/1557085117701574. hdl:10072/340081. S2CID 152075981.
- ^ "How China's One-Child Policy Led To Forced Abortions, 30 Million Bachelors". NPR. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ Weil, Shalva (2016). "Making femicide visible". Current Sociology. 64 (7): 1124–1137. doi:10.1177/0011392115623602.