The term femicide was fairly new and it means the killing of women. Now, often called the killing of both man and woman murder that the killing of a man (homo ).
But there is also the ' wife-murder, the killing of his wife (uxor ). That she possesses a dignity at the semantic level only as the wife? But
"femicide" directs our attention to the fact that the woman , the woman (the Latin means female woman, then woman) is often the victim of violence, sometimes deadly as woman. In the world
1 / a cause of death for women is killing voluntary by a man. This is less obvious than it sounds: in fact, you can also die by accident, old age, sickness, even for an assault suffered by another woman. But the women murdered die especially and men. The term femicide
has a very specific historical and geographical origin, dating back to the massacre of women in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez ... there, the journalist Michele Cinque (citing Amnesty International as various other sources http://michele5.blogspot . com /): "I'm already more than 430 women murdered and more than 600 disappearances since 1993."
Women between the 15 and 25, who worked in factories in the area "earn" $ $ 4 a day for 10 hours. Also, add as Cinque, the city is infested with more than 500 gangs that often require new entrants (entry or initiation rite?) The rape of a girl. You say: be ', you know, the gangs ...
Yet, according to statistics provided by the Crisis Center in Juarez, Casa Amiga, 70% of women seeking help "were beaten by their husbands " and "30 % it was someone they knew. "Only in 2001 were submitted" 4540 reported rapes (12 day). "
are then often also sexual harassment and threats of dismissal by the supervisors and the owners of the maquiladoras (factories sort of) "women who refuse their advances."
This is also due to the impunity of the Mexican government: the governor of state of Chihuahua, Barrio Terrazas, the victims of rape and / or murder were responsible "for walking in dark places and wore short skirts or other provocative outfits."
and persist protection and connivance of politicians, police, soldiers and entrepreneurs often linked to drug trafficking.
will say: this is the Mexico, whereas the femicide has spread everywhere. For
scholar and jurist Barbara Spinelli, "femicide occurs in every geographical context, whenever a woman undergoes physical, psychological, economic, regulatory, social, religious, family and out. When it is not recognized as a subject, when she was denied the right to go against the imposed by society and the role of self-determination "(http://femminicidio.blogspot.com/). Therefore, various
types of violence perpetrated on women beyond the "simple" criminal context, for Spinelli part of a more complex social and cultural framework .
Unfortunately, some women take up the mentality of their persecutors. In a great novel by Sonia Ognibene, Isabel barely escaped rape, the mother of her rapist almost crying that her son "would never attack a defenseless girl, and if they had been, if she was" sought "(S. Ognibene "The secret to Isabel," Raffaello Editrice, p.102). Just
still denounce the violence that many women suffer from girls (see infibulation) even in countries ruled by vicious Islamists, or the widespread use of abortion in China precisely when they are born girls. But there is also
femicide in Italy and is expanding: 101 women killed in 2006, 107 in 2007, 112 in 2008, 119 in 2009. The road
So much to do is ... and we need to set . Men and women.
But there is also the ' wife-murder, the killing of his wife (uxor ). That she possesses a dignity at the semantic level only as the wife? But
"femicide" directs our attention to the fact that the woman , the woman (the Latin means female woman, then woman) is often the victim of violence, sometimes deadly as woman. In the world
1 / a cause of death for women is killing voluntary by a man. This is less obvious than it sounds: in fact, you can also die by accident, old age, sickness, even for an assault suffered by another woman. But the women murdered die especially and men. The term femicide
has a very specific historical and geographical origin, dating back to the massacre of women in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez ... there, the journalist Michele Cinque (citing Amnesty International as various other sources http://michele5.blogspot . com /): "I'm already more than 430 women murdered and more than 600 disappearances since 1993."
Women between the 15 and 25, who worked in factories in the area "earn" $ $ 4 a day for 10 hours. Also, add as Cinque, the city is infested with more than 500 gangs that often require new entrants (entry or initiation rite?) The rape of a girl. You say: be ', you know, the gangs ...
Yet, according to statistics provided by the Crisis Center in Juarez, Casa Amiga, 70% of women seeking help "were beaten by their husbands " and "30 % it was someone they knew. "Only in 2001 were submitted" 4540 reported rapes (12 day). "
are then often also sexual harassment and threats of dismissal by the supervisors and the owners of the maquiladoras (factories sort of) "women who refuse their advances."
This is also due to the impunity of the Mexican government: the governor of state of Chihuahua, Barrio Terrazas, the victims of rape and / or murder were responsible "for walking in dark places and wore short skirts or other provocative outfits."
and persist protection and connivance of politicians, police, soldiers and entrepreneurs often linked to drug trafficking.
will say: this is the Mexico, whereas the femicide has spread everywhere. For
scholar and jurist Barbara Spinelli, "femicide occurs in every geographical context, whenever a woman undergoes physical, psychological, economic, regulatory, social, religious, family and out. When it is not recognized as a subject, when she was denied the right to go against the imposed by society and the role of self-determination "(http://femminicidio.blogspot.com/). Therefore, various
types of violence perpetrated on women beyond the "simple" criminal context, for Spinelli part of a more complex social and cultural framework .
Unfortunately, some women take up the mentality of their persecutors. In a great novel by Sonia Ognibene, Isabel barely escaped rape, the mother of her rapist almost crying that her son "would never attack a defenseless girl, and if they had been, if she was" sought "(S. Ognibene "The secret to Isabel," Raffaello Editrice, p.102). Just
still denounce the violence that many women suffer from girls (see infibulation) even in countries ruled by vicious Islamists, or the widespread use of abortion in China precisely when they are born girls. But there is also
femicide in Italy and is expanding: 101 women killed in 2006, 107 in 2007, 112 in 2008, 119 in 2009. The road
So much to do is ... and we need to set . Men and women.
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