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

'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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Series Foreword / Berta, Peter
  • Foreword / Khan, Deeyah
  • Note on Orthography
  • 1. Honor
  • 2. The Problems of Earthly Existence
  • 3. The Patriarchal Order
  • 4. Marriage
  • 5. Modernity
  • 6. Quantitative Analysis
  • 7. The End of Honor
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHORS