« Débarrasser la société de femme[s] de ce genre-là ». Appréhender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enquêter sur les féminicides

This article focuses on cases of femicides in 19th century court records. Although femicide, in its contemporary understanding in France, seems to be reduced to its marital dimension (murder of a wife by her husband), the study of femicide archives based on Radford and Russell’s definition (1992) ma...

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Main Author: Margot Giacinti
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Language:fra
Published: Association Genres, sexualités, langage 2021-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/glad/3217
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description This article focuses on cases of femicides in 19th century court records. Although femicide, in its contemporary understanding in France, seems to be reduced to its marital dimension (murder of a wife by her husband), the study of femicide archives based on Radford and Russell’s definition (1992) makes it possible to account for the diversity of cases of women killed by men and to identify the determining gender factors in the crime. Thus, the paper examines what might have prevented such a reading by looking at the practices of the actors involved in the judicial investigation, and by studying three — at first sight very different — cases in which the victim is a woman. The article concludes that there are recurrent factors that lead men to kill women, which demonstrate the exercise of male domination, and which allow the cases presented to be subsumed under the unitary category of femicide.
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« Débarrasser la société de femme[s] de ce genre-là ». Appréhender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enquêter sur les féminicides
Glad!
France
archives
femicide
19th century
socio-history
title « Débarrasser la société de femme[s] de ce genre-là ». Appréhender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enquêter sur les féminicides
title_full « Débarrasser la société de femme[s] de ce genre-là ». Appréhender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enquêter sur les féminicides
title_fullStr « Débarrasser la société de femme[s] de ce genre-là ». Appréhender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enquêter sur les féminicides
title_full_unstemmed « Débarrasser la société de femme[s] de ce genre-là ». Appréhender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enquêter sur les féminicides
title_short « Débarrasser la société de femme[s] de ce genre-là ». Appréhender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enquêter sur les féminicides
title_sort debarrasser la societe de femme s de ce genre la apprehender les archives judiciaires au prisme du genre pour enqueter sur les feminicides
topic France
archives
femicide
19th century
socio-history
url https://journals.openedition.org/glad/3217
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