Femicide in Brazil

The article argues the need to analyze violence and the death of women in order to understand them within the complex framework of body control and sexuality policies. This type of approach has been especially produced by feminists through the characterization of the phenomenon called femicide. The text analyzes and explains how the concept of femicides was modernized and amplified and adapted to Latin American national realities as they spread as a law. The author propose a systematic typology based in three categories: (1) reproductive femicide, linked to female deaths by abortion; (2) domestic femicide, linked to lethal violence in the household or family and/or conjugal relations; and (3) sexual femicide, linked to lethal violence with evidence of sexual violence.