" Femicide as a term was first publicly introduced in 1976 by Diana Russell while testifying at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women in Brussels in 1976.

A study conducted in 2002 using the Femicide Database 1993 – 2001 at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, which documented incidents of femicide that occurred in Ciudad Juarez from 1993 – 2001, found that sexual serial femicide was one of the main forms of femicide that took place in Ciudad Juarez.

Femicide was first used in England in 1801 to signify " the killing of a woman.

In 1976 Russell redefined ‘ Femicide ’, as " the killing of females by males because they are female.

However, feminist movements in many countries in South America, as in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Chile, and El Salvador among others, have adopted the use of Russell ’ s politicized ‘ Femicide ’ and have successfully used it socially, politically and legally to address lethal violence against women in their respective countries.

Russell who is puzzled about the lack of response of women ’ s groups in the United States to the use of the term ‘ Femicide ’ still continues to advocate the use of ‘ Femicide ’ to women ’ s groups in the United States and around the world.

In 1992 Russell co-edited an anthology titled Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing.

In Europe, the discipline originated as ethnology and was originally defined as the study of social organization in non-state societies, later redefined as social anthropology.

Furthermore, it was subject to relativity and thus was not constant for all observers, therefore, in 2012, the IAU redefined it again to just simply be.

The term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.

The Communist Party's ideology was redefined under Deng Xiaoping to incorporate principles of market economics, and the corresponding reforms enabled rapid and sustained economic growth.

The Fahrenheit scale later was redefined to make the freezing-to-boiling interval exactly 180 degrees, a convenient value as 180 is a highly composite number, meaning that it is evenly divisible into many fractions.

Accordingly, the American definition of EVA start time was redefined to when the astronaut switches the EMU to battery power.

The unit was redefined in terms of the tropical year at 1900. 0 instead of the sidereal year ; and the standard second was defined first as 1 / 31556925. 975 of the tropical year at 1900. 0, and then as the slightly modified fraction 1 / 31556925. 9747 instead, finally being redefined in 1967 / 8 in terms of the cesium atomic clock standard ( see below ).

The metric definition of exactly cubic decimetres ( also after the litre was redefined in 1964, ≈ ) was adopted shortly afterwards in Canada, but from 1976 the conventional value of was used in the United Kingdom until the Canadian convention was adopted in 1985.

Moseley redefined the idea of atomic numbers from its previous status as an ad hoc numerical tag to help sorting the elements, in particular in the Periodic Table, into a real and objective whole-number quantity that was experimentally measurable.

Also, the concept of archetype was redefined by the Early Church Fathers in order to better understand that when a person shows veneration toward an image, the intention is rather to honor the person depicted, not the substance of the icon.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

In 1901, at the 3rd CGPM conference, the litre was redefined as the space occupied by 1 kg of pure water at the temperature of its maximum density ( 3. 98 ° C ) under a pressure of 1 atm.

This definition, however, was inadequate for the precision requirements of modern technology, and the metric kilogram was redefined in terms of a man-made platinum-iridium bar known as the international prototype kilogram.

OS / 360 MFT ( Multitasking with a Fixed number of Tasks ) provided multitasking: several memory partitions, each of a fixed size, were set up when the operating system was installed and when the operator redefined them.

Protestants and Catholics were redefined as equal before the law, and Calvinism was given legal recognition.

Additionally, the southern edge of the Tiergarten was to be redefined, with a new road planned to slice through the built-up area immediately to the north of Columbushaus ( although Columbushaus itself would remain unscathed ); this road would line up with Voßstraße, one block to the north of Leipziger Platz.

In 1956, the second was redefined in terms of a year ( the period of the Earth's revolution around the Sun ) for a particular epoch because, by then, it had become recognized that the Earth's rotation on its own axis was not sufficiently uniform as a standard of time.

Male chauvinism was apparent long before the feminist movement, and studies indicate that it has been as long-believed and practiced as racism and religious persecution.

Crystal Catherine Eastman ( June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928 ) was a lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist.

During the 1920s her only paid work was as a columnist for feminist journals, notably Equal Rights and Time and Tide.

Eastman claimed that " life was a big battle for the complete feminist ," but she was convinced that the complete feminist would someday achieve total victory.

Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949 that Épître au Dieu d ' Amour was " the first time we see a woman take up her pen in defense of her sex " making Christine de Pizan perhaps the West's first feminist, or protofeminist as some scholars prefer to say.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.

The development of feminist film theory was influenced by second wave feminism and the development of women's studies within the academy.

The growing female presence in the film industry was seen as a positive step toward realizing this goal, by drawing attention to feminist issues and putting forth alternative, more true-to-life views of women.

The most radical militant feminist activism was practiced by the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, which was founded by Léon and her colleague, Claire Lacombe on 10 May 1793.

She focused on other aspects of the government, but was a feminist by virtue of the fact that she was a woman working to influence the world.

This was helped by the emergence of self-identified feminist writers including Ann Nocenti, Linda Fite, and Barbara Kesel.

It was a feminist movement in that most of its teachers and students were women ; notable among the founders of the movement were Emma Curtis Hopkins, known as the " teacher of teachers " Myrtle Fillmore, Malinda Cramer, and Nona L. Brooks ; with its churches and community centers mostly led by women, from the 1880s to today.

* Gillian Rose ( born 1962 ), most famous for her critique: Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge ( 1993 ), which was one of the first moves towards a development of feminist geography.

Schneider proposes that by testing an historian against the criteria of the " objective historian " then, even if an historian holds specific political views ( and she gives an example of a well-qualified historian's testimony that was disregarded by a United States court because he was a member of a feminist group ), providing the historian uses the " objective historian " standards, he or she is a " conscientious historian ".

In France, there was also feminist activity inside individualist anarchism as promoted by individualist feminists Marie Küge, Anna Mahé, Rirette Maitrejean, and Sophia Zaïkovska.

Joanna Russ ( February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011 ) was an American writer, academic and feminist.

Russ, an out lesbian, was one of the most outspoken authors to challenge male dominance of the field, and is generally regarded as one of the leading feminist science fiction scholars and writers.

Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.

Russ was a self-described socialist feminist, expressing particular admiration for the work and theories of Clara Fraser and her Freedom Socialist Party.