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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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
2019.
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Table des matières:
- 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