Abstract

ARTEAGA BOTELLO, Nelson  and  VALDES FIGUEROA, Jimena. Socio-Cultural Contexts of Feminicides in the State of Mexico: New Female Subjectivities. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2010, vol.72, n.1, pp.5-35. ISSN 2594-0651.

The article considers that homicidal violence against women in the State of Mexico reflects processes of social disaffiliation in the sphere of the victims' and their assailants' lives. These processes prevent the creation of material and symbolic resources in men and women for coping with the reconfiguration of their subjectivity. Homicidal violence against women is understood as a response to the collapse of the hegemonic model of femininity and masculinity. Thus, so-called feminicidas are agents whose actions crystallize in processes of change and rather than merely "demented" sons or deranged maniacs.

Keywords : sex-sexuality dyad; feminicides; female subjectivity; male subjectivity; violence.