CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Ordorica Bracamontes, Camila |
|---|---|
| Title | The Invention of a Concept for the Murder of Women: A Historical Study on the Development of Feminist Knowledge Production |
| Summary | The following research is a conceptual history done through the history of the present time as its theory of periodization with an international women and gender history methodological perspective of the of concept(s) femicide/feminicide/feminicidio (f/f/f). The research questions that guide this research are the following: how are the multiple meanings of the concept produced and changed in variable sociopolitical and historical settings, what are the feminist debates regarding the production of these meanings, and what are the changes they produce in reality? I argue that f/f/f is a feminist invention in historical terms, understanding that the meaning creation has been produced through the development of specialized literature and by the process of naming a practice that did not have a previous name. The concept of this form of murder as a social phenomenon had to become apparent for it to appear in history, and it has done so by means and through a feminist interest to define it. F/f/f is thus a feminist invention. In the research I study the three periods of temporality inscribed inside the historicity of the concept. These temporal spaces are that of immediacy (the multiple definitions of f/f/f from 1992 onwards), the broader period of time where the event is encompassed (1970s radical feminism), and the third space is that of the long-term process (the history of the International Women’s Movement). The goal of this study is to bring the discipline of history in conversation with f/f/f literature and to fill the gap in this literature regarding the particular historical processes embedded in the creation of feminist sociopolitical concepts. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley. |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/ordorica_camila.pdf |
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