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Honour': Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women
This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the defence of 'honour' and 'provocation' in different countries of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. This timely volume is distinctive in approach and content, highlighting activist and practice-orientated academic perspectives from both the South and the North.
The authors give voice to the struggle to locate 'crimes of honour' firmly within the international framework of violence against women and human rights, rather than positioning these abuses as specific to particular cultures or communities. The first of its kind, this book serves as a resource in addressing 'honour crimes' and, more broadly, violence against women, and will be of interest to a multi-disciplinary academic audience as well as to lawyers, policy-makers and activists.
The authors give voice to the struggle to locate 'crimes of honour' firmly within the international framework of violence against women and human rights, rather than positioning these abuses as specific to particular cultures or communities. The first of its kind, this book serves as a resource in addressing 'honour crimes' and, more broadly, violence against women, and will be of interest to a multi-disciplinary academic audience as well as to lawyers, policy-makers and activists.
- GenresNonfictionFeminism
400 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2005
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May 7, 2015
I want to smack people right now. Not because the book is bad, but because it makes you want to smack people.
This is a collection of essays dealing with honour killings in particular but also other honor crimes. It focuses on a global sscale, so it covers the Middle East as well as South America, Europe, and Asia. The essays vary slightly in style and by and large are scholarly in style. I would reccomend reading either Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime or Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World,Newly updated first because both books give background that will help when reading this book.
This is a collection of essays dealing with honour killings in particular but also other honor crimes. It focuses on a global sscale, so it covers the Middle East as well as South America, Europe, and Asia. The essays vary slightly in style and by and large are scholarly in style. I would reccomend reading either Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime or Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World,Newly updated first because both books give background that will help when reading this book.
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