Orphanhood, feminicide and emotions: an integrative literature review

Resumen

The central theme of this research revolves around orphanhood due to femicide, questioning how the emotional perspective of this type of violent loss is addressed and discussed in academic production. To this end, an integrative bibliographic review was conducted, in which twenty-two articles were found in national and international databases. The results were systematized and analyzed according to two categories: femicide and orphanhood, and the emotional repercussions of maternal loss due to femicide. The analyses indicated that the process of invisibility and passivity engendered by the State imposes a politics of death upon certain bodies, such as female bodies, which is updated through the invisibilization of the living conditions of the sons and daughters of victims of femicide. It is worth noting that, although some studies already recognize the social dimension of the emotions associated with the experience of orphanhood, there are still studies in which a theoretical conception predominates that reduces emotions to phenomena decontextualized from the concrete social forces in which gender-based violence occurs.