Honour, violence, women and Islam
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Honour, violence, women and islam- an introduction
- 2. Honour-related violence towards south Asian muslim women in the UK: a crisis of masculinity and cultural relativism in the context of islamophobia and the 'war on terror'
- 3. The silence of women from the Pakistani Muslim Mirpuri community in violent relationships
- 4. "There is nothing 'honourable' about honour killings": gender, violence and the limits of multiculturalism
- 5. Collective crimes, collective victims: a case study of the murder of Banaz Mahmod
- 6. Honour and shame in domestic homocide: a critical analysis of the provocation defence
- 7. Does the Qur'an condone domestic violence?
- 8. The construction of 'honour' in Indian crimminal law: an Indian lawyer's perspective
- 9. Men's violence and women's responsibillity: mothers' stories about honour violence
- 10. Lack of due diligence: judgement of crimes of honour in Turkey
- 11. A comparative study of the reform work conducted in Asia and Europe to combat violence and 'so-called' honour murders
- 12. Ending honour crimes in sub-Saharan Africa: looking at a long hard death
- 13. Conversations across borders: men and honour-related violence in the UK and Sweden
- 14. Tackling 'crimes of honour': evaluating the social and legal responses for combating forced marriages in the UK
- 15. Reconfiguring 'honour'-based violence as a form of gendered violence