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040			_aAFVC
100			_aCondry, Rachel _911010
245			_aWho counts? _bThe invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide _cRachel Condry and Caroline Miles
260			_bSage, _c2023
500			_aCurrent Sociology, 2023, 71(1): 43-59
520			_aThis 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. (Authors' abstract). Record #7694
650			_aFEMICIDE _98292
650			_aHOMICIDE _9297
650			_aMOTHERS _9392
650		4	_977 _aPARENTAL ABUSE
650		4	_aSTATISTICS _9575
650		0	_aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN _93088
651			_aINTERNATIONAL _93624
651		4	_aUNITED KINGDOM _92604
700			_aMiles, Caroline _911011
773	0		_tCurrent Sociology, 2023, 71(1): 43-59
830			_aCurrent Sociology _910920
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221097153 _zDOI: 10.1177/00113921221097153 (Open access)
856			_uhttps://journals.sagepub.com/toc/csia/71/1 _yRead related articles in this journal issue
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