Women in the crossfire : understanding and ending honor killing / Robert Paul Churchill.

9780190468590 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

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HV6250.4.W65 C577 2018

362.88

Every year, thousands of girls and women die, often at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honour violations that bring shame upon their family - such transgressions range from walking with a boy in their neighbourhood to seeking to marry a man of their own choosing to being a victim of rape. 'Women in the Crossfire' presents a thorough examination of honour killing, an age-old social practice through which women are trapped and subjected to terror and deadly violence as consequences of the evolution of dysfunctional patriarchal structures and competition among men for domination.

Every year, thousands of girls and women die, often at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honour violations that bring shame upon their family - such transgressions range from walking with a boy in their neighbourhood to seeking to marry a man of their own choosing to being a victim of rape. 'Women in the Crossfire' presents a thorough examination of honour killing, an age-old social practice through which women are trapped and subjected to terror and deadly violence as consequences of the evolution of dysfunctional patriarchal structures and competition among men for domination.

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