Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn: Winner of the 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.
Feminist scholars of coloniality and intersectionality are presently proposing and enacting a relational turn in the theorization of femi(ni)cide. These thinkers make efforts to disengage from mono-categorial framings that search for explanations for extreme violence against women within the realm o...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 609 - 634 |
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University of Chicago Press
Spring2025
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