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From Femicide to Feminicidio
Latin American Contributions to Feminist Conceptual History
in Contributions to the History of Concepts
Author:
Camila Ordorica
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Camila Ordorica
Ph.D. Student, University of Texas at Austin, USA camilaordoricab@utexas.edu
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Abstract
Feminisms in the second half of the twentieth century were reshaped by the efforts to end violence against women. Feminist activists in national and international settings invented concepts to refer to previously unquestioned societal practices as oppressive to women and changed the world by naming them. In this article, I engage with the concepts of femicide/feminicidio (f/f): the murder of women for gender reasons. I follow the history of this concept and its incursion into the broader political and public sphere in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican case, I show how the study of national feminist histories is relevant to the history of women's activism in the international arena. This article contributes to the history of concepts by showing the linguistic distinctions and connections of feminist concepts in different sociocultural environments. Overall, this research argues in favor of studying feminist concepts with Latin American perspectives to articulate the complexity of the world today.
Contributor Notes
Camila Ordorica is a Ph.D. Student in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. ORCID: