Between emotion and honour: Crime of passion, gender and justice in Mexico City, 1929-1971

Defined like an act of violence that occurred between two people in an intimate relationship characterized by love, whether married or not, crime of passion has social and legal meaning whose historical analysis in a long time, express both changes and continuities in gender relations, kinship and a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Núñez Cetina, Saydi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/65699
Acceso en línea:https://moderna.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehm/article/view/65699
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Crime of passion
Honor
Domestic violence
Justice
Crimen pasional
Violencia doméstica
Justicia
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Sumario:Defined like an act of violence that occurred between two people in an intimate relationship characterized by love, whether married or not, crime of passion has social and legal meaning whose historical analysis in a long time, express both changes and continuities in gender relations, kinship and affective ties. This article focuses on these aspects in order to show representations, discourses, and legal practices about passionate homicide in Mexico city in 20th century. In addition, it demonstrates how the justice system reduced punishment for honour and passion reasons, and this way helped to keep the violence against women, and an inefficient and biased justice.