The media and gender-based murders of women: Notes on the cases in Europe and Latin America
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Violence against women, especially its most severe form, femicide/feminicide, is caused by many factors, such as social constructs and the symbolic violence of what it means to be a man or a woman in different societies. In contemporary societies, mass media plays a fundamental role in these constructs due both to the content, language, and narrative used, and to audience consumption.
