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Different Names For The Same Thing: Domestic Homicides And Dowry Deaths In The Western Media, Jennifer Parker
Different Names For The Same Thing: Domestic Homicides And Dowry Deaths In The Western Media, Jennifer Parker
University of Colorado Law Review
Domestic violence is a global phenomenon that knows no geographic or cultural bounds. Whether they are shot, poisoned, stabbed, or burned, women across the world are dying at the hands of their male partners. Nevertheless, the Western media's portrayal of dowry deaths in India illustrates American society's failure to, or refusal to, connect dowry deaths to the parallel domestic homicides committed in the United States every day. From a postcolonial feminist standpoint, this Note argues that this disjunction is neither accidental nor inconsequential but rather reinforces the United States' hegemonic self-perception as a society in which women's liberation has been …