The transversality of femicide/feminicide crimes in Brazil and Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Bandeira, Lourdes Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Magalhães, Maria José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Defensoria Pública do Distrito Federal (Online)
• DOI: 10.29327/2193997.1.1-3
• Texto Completo: http://revista.defensoria.df.gov.br/revista/index.php/revista/article/view/32

The crime of femicide typifies the death of women because of her sex/gender condition. It occurs in private and public domains, exacerbating female vulnerability. How to explain the increasing number of women murdered in Brazil and Portugal? To what extent is violence tolerated as part of a woman's life? The persistent maintenance of traditional images "maternal, passive, loving" end up reinforcing the subjugation of women’s’ identities and bodies. And how are women killed? Violence is committed, above all, by men who have some kind of relationship with the victim: they are husbands, companions, fiancées, boyfriends, and all other former companions who consider her desire to break up strong enough reason to kill her. Hate crimes with severe cruelty have demarcated the female body as a "new" territory of revenge. Another vulnerability of the victims is the disqualification of the threats suffered, adding to the inoperativeness of the judicial system. In this direction, a comparative analysis is carried out between the media coverage of crimes typified as femicide which occurred in the Brazilian state of Goias and in its Federal District with the ones committed in Portugal between 2016 and 2017. Given the historical, population and developmental discrepancies between the cases studied, we followed by an epistemology of hermeneutical comparability (Esser & Hanitzsch, 2012). The examination of common measures refers to academic analysis and political action. The analysis is developed based on the following categories: symbolic annihilation, sexual property or belonging, and patriarchal terrorism or crime of misogyny.