Essays about: "femicide"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the word femicide.

1. 1. Killing women, making headlines : Exploring the representation of femicide in Chilean online news media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Valentina Bravo Jara; [2023]
   Keywords : News reporting; Femicide; Gender-based violence; Feminist Discourse Analysis; Chile; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Femicide is the lethal form of gender-based violence (GBV) and is a reflection of our unequal societies and power relations between women and men. This present study is investigating how femicide is represented in the online news media with the argument that it has the ability to shape and form the perceptions and understanding of femicide in the public debate, hence either contributing or counteracting its existence. READ MORE

3. 2. The shadow pandemic : a feminist institutional perspective on civil society's work on gender-based violence in post COVID -19 South Africa

   University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

   Author : Louise Lindfors; [2023]
   Keywords : Gender-based violence; institutional feminism; CSO civil society organizations; grassroot activists; South Africa;

   Abstract : This field study is a thematic and feminist institutionalist analysis on how the civil society and grassroot activists in Gauteng province, South Africa, has been affected and mitigated during and after the COVID -19 pandemic in their work against gender-based violence. The data consist of five semi structured interviews with primary sources, divided in the two sub-groups of activists and formal NGO representatives. READ MORE

4. 3. Witch hunts and the intersections of gender, age and class : A feminist analysis on the Western European witch hunts in the 16th and 17th century.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Bente de Koeijer; [2022]
   Keywords : gendered ageism; witch hunts; femicide; lookism; marxist feminism; women s history;

   Abstract : Aim: The aim of this thesis is to elucidate the effects of gender, age, and class in witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Western Europe from a feminist perspective. It also aims to understand the perception of these witch hunts in our present society. It centers poor, old, women who were accused of witchcraft. READ MORE

5. 4. “Between Two Worlds” : The Racialisation of Femicides in German News Reports

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Lea Schwacke; [2022]
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   Abstract : Although femicide, the gender-related killing of females, is a phenomenon which cross-cuts societes and national borders, in European countries such as Germany, the news coverage of such cases differs according to whether victim and/or perpetrator are ascribed to belong to the 'majority society' or to 'migrant', in particular Muslim-marked, communities. This thesis aims to contribute to the discussion on femicide in connection with cultural racism by conducting a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the representation of two recent femicide cases in four German newspapers. READ MORE

6. 5. “Das Problem ist das Patriarchat” A qualitative Analysis of Framing and Counterframing of Femi(ni)cides in contemporary Germany

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Siri Krobjinski; [2022]
   Keywords : femicide; feminicide; activism; Germany; framing theory; patriarchy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, 139 women were killed by their (ex-)partner in 2020. That year, Germany was ranked second highest in estimated number of femicide victims in Europe. READ MORE