Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage : Violence against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several 'honor'-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du'a Khalil Aswad, and campaign...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Payton, Joanne
Otros Autores: Khan, Deeyah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women, Kurdish > Social conditions.
Marriage > Economic aspects.
Kinship.
Honor killings.
Family violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Femmes kurdes > Irak > Kurdistān > Conditions sociales.
Femmes kurdes > Violence envers > Irak > Kurdistān.
Mariage > Aspect economique > Irak > Kurdistān.
Parente > Irak > Kurdistān.
Crimes d'honneur > Irak > Kurdistān.
Violence familiale > Irak > Kurdistān.
Women, Kurdish > Iraq > Kurdistān > Social conditions.
Women, Kurdish > Violence against > Iraq > Kurdistān.
Marriage > Economic aspects > Iraq > Kurdistān.
Kinship > Iraq > Kurdistān.
Honor killings > Iraq > Kurdistān.
Family violence > Iraq > Kurdistān.
Iraq > Kurdistān.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several 'honor'-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du'a Khalil Aswad, and campaigns against 'honor'-based violence by Kurdish feminists have drawn international attention to this phenomenon within Kurdish communities. Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage provides a description of 'honor'-based violence that focuses upon the structure of the family rather than the perpetrator's culture. The author, Joanne Payton, argues that within societies primarily organized by familial and marital connections, women's 'honor' is a form of symbolic capital within a 'political economy' in which marriage organizes intergroup connections. Drawing on statistical analysis of original data contextualized with historical and anthropological readings, Payton explores forms of marriage and their relationship to 'honor', sketching changing norms around the familial control of women from agrarian/pastoral roots to the contemporary era.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9781978801752

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