'Honour': Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women Contributor(s): Welchman, Lynn (Editor), Hossain, Sara (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1842776274 ISBN-13: 9781842776278 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $47.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organizations addressing so-called "honour crimes," including "honour killings" and interference with the right to marry, as well as analyzing relevant crosscutting thematic issues. In addition, this book identifies relevant intersecting thematic issues from practice-orientated academic perspective. It seeks to highlight a human rights based framework in seeking to address "crimes of honour" rather than taking a culturally relativist approach. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare |
Dewey: 362.83 |
LCCN: 2005050149 |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.1" W x 9.22" (1.47 lbs) 400 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |