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jan 1, 1976 - Diana E. H. Russell first implicitly defined the term "femicide"

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In 1976, the feminist author Diana E. H. Russell first implicitly defined the term as a hate killing of females by males but then went on to redefine it as "the killing of females by males because they are female"
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jan 1, 1976
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~ 50 years ago