Women Of Honour

Author : Lynn Welchman,Sara Hossain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848131026

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'Honour' by Lynn Welchman,Sara Hossain Pdf

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.

Author : Milka Kahn,Anne Véron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781849048064

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Women of Honour by Milka Kahn,Anne Véron Pdf

The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. So who are they? Pure and virtuous Madonnas or dangerous Godmothers? Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. But, as Milka Kahn and Anne Veron reveal in this absorbing book, women have always been at the heart of Italy's criminal organisations. While the men are behind bars or on the run, it is left to their wives and mothers to uphold and pass on the 'family values'. Once widowed, some push their sons to vendetta; others become mafia chiefs in their own right. Yet many also decide to risk their lives, collaborating with the authorities and renouncing mafia society in search of normality.Through first-hand accounts of submission, complicity and revolt, Women of Honour paints a complex and fascinating portrait of the women in Italy's mafias who have overcome a culture of silence to share their extraordinary stories.--

Author : Lynn Welchman,Sara Hossain
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848136984

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'Honour' by Lynn Welchman,Sara Hossain Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Edoh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1715234464

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A Woman Of Honour by Stephen Edoh Pdf

Author : M. Alinia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137367013

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Honor and Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan by M. Alinia Pdf

This book examines violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, taking an intersectional perspective. It reveals the links between destructive, state-sanctioned honor discourse and notions of manhood as they are shaped by a resistance culture dedicated to the struggle against ethnic oppression.

Author : Mohammad Mazher Idriss,Tahir Abbas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136938108

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Honour, Violence, Women and Islam by Mohammad Mazher Idriss,Tahir Abbas Pdf

Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in general and Muslim women in particular. The issue of HRV has become a sensitive subject in many South Asian and Middle Eastern countries and it has received the growing attention of the media, human rights groups and academics around the globe. However, the issue has yet to receive detailed academic study in the United Kingdom, particularly in terms of both legal and sociological research. This collection sets out the theoretical and ethical parameters of the study of HRV in order to address this intellectual vacuum in a socio-legal context. The key objectives of this book are: to construct, and to develop further, a theory of HRV; to rationalise and characterise the different forms of HRV; to investigate the role of religion, race and class in society within this context, in particular, the role of Islam; to scrutinise the role of the civil/criminal law/justice systems in preventing these crimes; and to inform public policy-makers of the potential policies that may be employed in combating HRV.

Author : Kitty Warnock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : UVA:X001842015

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Land Before Honour by Kitty Warnock Pdf

Author : Emma Darcy,Takane Yonetani
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596167545

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WOMAN OF HONOUR by Emma Darcy,Takane Yonetani Pdf

Things are going well for Molly, especially her new restaurant delivery service. All she needs now is a good man who will love her and help her make a happy family. But for some reason, she keeps getting involved with the wrong men. After finding out the man she is dating is married, she is accosted by his angry brother-in-law, Richard. Fed up, Molly decides to cut her losses and focus on her work, only to run into Richard again at her next catering gig!

Author : Sana Khayyat
Publisher : Al Saqi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0863560504

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Honour and Shame by Sana Khayyat Pdf

A unique and often shocking testimony, Honour and Shame gives access for the first time to the world of Iraqi women. Ranging from executives to illiterate housewives, the women speak with extraordinary frankness of sex and marriage, physical and mental violence, the fear of scandal, and their indoctrination into the ideology of honour and shame. Their words are frequently moving: 'We started to have problems the first day we met. He raped me in the train on our wedding day. I was 13 years old.' 'Sex is the most important thing to my husband. He always wants me to dress up in my sexiest nightgown and respond happily and willingly to all his desires...To tell you the truth, I don't care much about sex.' 'He beats me whenever he feels angry or upset. I always forgive him. I say to myself, where can I go after all?' On the basis of an in-depth study conducted over several years, the author -who herself comes from this society- builds a picture of Iraqi women's lives from birth to old age. Although the book's main focus is on Iraq, there are many thought-provoking cross-cultural comparisons between Third World women and women in Western societies.

Author : Sana Khayyat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X001857668

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Honour and Shame by Sana Khayyat Pdf

A testimony to the world of Iraqi women. Ranging from executives to illiterate housewives, the women speak with frankness of sex and marriage, physical and mental violence, the fear of scandal and their indoctrination into the ideology of honour and shame. On the basis of an in-depth study conducted over several years, the author builds a picture of Iraqi women's lives from birth to old age. Although the book's main focus is on Iraq, there are cross-cultural comparisons between Third World women and women in Western societies.

Author : Yougindra Khushalani
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9024725852

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The Dignity and Honour of Women As Basic and Fundamental Human Rights by Yougindra Khushalani Pdf

Discusses protection of women during armed conflicts.

Author : Clarinda Still
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351588188

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Dalit Women by Clarinda Still Pdf

One of the only ethnographic studies of Dalit women, this book gives a rich account of individual Dalit women’s lives and documents a rise in patriarchy in the community. The author argues that as Dalits’ economic and political position improves, ‘honour’ becomes crucial to social status. One of the ways Dalits accrue honour is by altering patterns of women’s work, education and marriage, and by adopting dominant-caste gender practices. But Dalits are not simply becoming like upper castes; they are simultaneously asserting a distinct, politicised Dalit identity, formed in direct opposition to the dominant castes. They are developing their own ‘politics of culture’. Key to both, the author argues, is the ‘respectability’ of women. This has significant effects on gender equality in the Dalit community.

Author : Mary C. Flannery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : British literature
ISBN : 1526110067

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Practising Shame by Mary C. Flannery Pdf

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

Author : Ayşe Güneş
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000297911

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International Human Rights Law and Crimes Against Women in Turkey by Ayşe Güneş Pdf

This book evaluates the effectiveness of current international human rights law, and in particular the recent Istanbul Convention, in eradicating so-called honour killings in Turkey. So-called ‘honour killings’ have become an issue of concern for the international community. In Turkey, in particular, the practice still exists despite the adoption of the relevant human rights instruments. The book argues that the improvement of the status of women in Turkey in accordance with gender equality as well as the application of the principle of state due diligence, both requirements of the Istanbul Convention and international human rights law, are fundamental means towards eradicating the killing of women in the name of ‘honour’. Using feminist approaches, in particular the intersectionality approach, the study looks at the application of such standards as well as the current obstacles. Through such a lens, the study discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Turkish Constitution, Turkish Civil Code, Turkish Penal Code and Law to Protect Family and Prevent Violence Against Women and questions the judicial approach to the implementation of the women’s right to life. It identifies the lacunae in the Turkish legislation that allow inadequate legal protection for women and the inconsistency of the judicial approach to the definition of the so-called honour killings in the judgements. The study then recommends some concrete amendments to the relevant legal provisions in order to better reflect the international framework and the feminist approaches. The book will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the areas of international human rights law and feminist legal theory.

Author : Mukhtar Mai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416542339

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In the Name of Honor by Mukhtar Mai Pdf

In June 2002, journalists throughout the world began to hear of the gang rape of a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala. The rape was ordered by a local clan known as the Mastoi and was arranged as punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, and (sadly) not the last, journalists and activists were captivated. This time the survivor had chosen to fight back, and in doing so, single-handedly changed the feminist movement in Pakistan. Her name was Mukhtar Mai, and her decision to stand up to her accusers was an act of bravery unheard of in one of the world's most adverse climates for women. By July 2002, Mai's case was headline news in Pakistan and under international scrutiny, the government awarded her the equivalent of 8,500 U.S. dollars in compensation money (a historic settlement), and her attackers were sentenced to death. Mukhtar Mai went on to open a school for girls in an effort to ensure that future generations would not suffer, as she had, from illiteracy. In this rousing account, Mai describes her experience and how she has since become an agent for change and a beacon of hope for oppressed women around the world. Timely and topical, In the Name of Honor is the remarkable and inspirational memoir of a woman who fought and triumphed against exceptional odds.