Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide

IF 1.9 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY
Rachel Condry, C. Miles
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Abstract

This article focuses on the important and persistent phenomenon of women killed by their sons. We argue that parricide (the killing of parents) is a gendered form of violence, given that women are disproportionately represented as victims compared to other forms of violence (aside from domestic homicide by current or ex partners) and that son-mother killings are a form of femicide that is often hidden. Not only do they fall under literal definitions of femicide in that they involve women being killed by men, but they also, we contend, fall under motivation-driven definitions as the killing of women by men because they are women and an institutional state failure to protect them as women. Drawing upon analysis of Homicide Index data and 57 case studies of parricide in the United Kingdom, we show that in many cases women are killed by their adult-aged mentally ill sons, within a broader context of ‘parental proximity’, maternal caregiving and intersectional invisibility, which ultimately renders them vulnerable to fatal violence.
谁重要?作为杀害女性的受害者,母亲们被忽视
这篇文章关注的是女性被她们的儿子杀害这一重要而持久的现象。我们认为,弑父(杀害父母)是一种性别暴力形式,因为与其他形式的暴力相比(除了现任或前任伴侣的家庭谋杀),女性作为受害者的比例不成比例,而且母子谋杀是一种经常被隐藏的女性谋杀形式。我们认为,这些行为不仅属于杀害女性的字面定义,因为它们涉及女性被男性杀害,而且它们也属于动机驱动的定义,因为男性杀害女性,因为她们是女性,而一个制度性的国家未能保护她们作为女性。通过对英国杀人指数数据和57个弑父案例的分析,我们发现,在许多情况下,女性是被患有精神疾病的成年儿子杀害的,这是在更广泛的“父母亲近”、母亲照顾和交叉隐形的背景下发生的,最终使她们容易受到致命暴力的伤害。
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Current Sociology
Current Sociology SOCIOLOGY-
CiteScore
5.10
自引率
5.00%
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65
期刊介绍: Current Sociology is a fully peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes original research and innovative critical commentary both on current debates within sociology as a developing discipline, and the contribution that sociologists can make to understanding and influencing current issues arising in the development of modern societies in a globalizing world. An official journal of the International Sociological Association since 1952, Current Sociology is one of the oldest and most widely cited sociology journals in the world.
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