SOCB49H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9a: Femicide, Homicide, Sodomy
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From all age groups, classes, cultural and ethnical backgrounds. More likely to be separated from partner. View of intimate femicide as manifestation of extreme (if self-defeating) controlling and proprietary attitudes and behaviours by men toward their female partners. This distinctiveness obscured in studies that treat intimate killings by men and women as instances of a single phenomenon. Co(cid:373)pared to the killi(cid:374)g of (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) i(cid:374)ti(cid:373)ate fe(cid:373)ale part(cid:374)ers fe(cid:373)i(cid:272)des (cid:373)ore likely to be. Involved extreme and sexualized violence: motivated by anger over separation, followed by suicide of offender, accompanied by killing of additional victims. Intimate femicide based in a larger gender[ed] inequality perpetuating male (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol o(cid:448)er (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455), la(cid:271)our, a(cid:374)d so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es life a(cid:374)d death. 1989 eight women met to share experience and provide emotional support 2 women they knew were killed in 1988 by their husbands (estranged) Named itself: women we honor action committee.
