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Diana E. H. Russell, acclaimed author and researcher on sexual violence against girls and women, and co-editor Roberta Harmes have produced a groundbreaking volume on femicide—the killing of females by males because they are female. Dr. Russell has contributed seven provocative original chapters to Femicide in Global Perspective. This anthology includes chapters on woman-killing in Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Israel, South Africa, other Southern African countries, the United States, and brief testimony from other nations. Together, the authors brilliantly demonstrate how naming femicide helps to expose and bring attention to this most extreme yet neglected form of violence against women, and the urgent need to put femicide on local, national and international action agendas.Advance Praise for Femicide in Global Perspective
"No reader will leave this landmark anthology without understanding the politics of global femicide—the killing of females because they are females. No personal, public, or international library should be without it."
–Gloria Steinem
"This searing indictment of lethal patriarchal violence against women is a first–in its uncompromising scholarship, political courage, global scope, and unabashedly justified passion. Bravo to Russell and Harmes."
—Robin Morgan
"if you intend to face, rather than deny, the reality of the world women live in, and lose their lives in, read this book."
—Catharine A. MacKinnon
"This is an important book for all those who care about the lives of women. It focuses attention on the murder of women and girls because they are female in its many deadly guises around the world and eloquently argues for the necessity of naming it what it is: femicide."
—Charlotte Bunch
"Diana Russell has devoted her life's work to naming and resisting violence against women. She and Roberta Harmes have given us an indispensable volume on the international scope of femicide, one that should further ever greater awareness and activism."
—Jane Caputi
