"Honour" : crimes, paradigms, and violence against women /: crimes, paradigms, and violence against women. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lynn Welchman and Sara Hossain.
• Other Names: Welchman, Lynn; Hossain, Sara
• Contents: United Nations, approaches to 'crimes of honour' / Jane Connors -- 'Crimes of honour', value and meaning / Purna Sen -- The role of 'community discourse' in combating 'crimes of honour' : preliminary assessment and prospects / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im -- 'Honour killings' and the law in Pakistan / Sohail Akbar Warraich -- Murders of women in Lebanon : 'crimes of honour' between reality and the law / Danielle Hoyek, Rafif Rida Sidawi, and Amira Abou Mrad -- 'Crimes of honour' as violence against women in Egypt / Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance -- Researching women's victimisation in Palestine : a socio-legal analysis / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- Culture, national minority, and the state : working against the 'crime of family honour' within the Palestinian community in Israel / Aida Touma-Sliman -- Changing the rules? Developments on 'crimes of honour' in Jordan / Reem Abu Hassan and Lynn Welchman -- Honour-based violence among the Kurds : the case of Iraqi Kurdistan / Nazand Begikhani -- 'Crimes of honour' in the Italian penal code : an analysis of history and reform / Maria Gabriella Bettiga-Boukerbout -- The 'legitimate defence of honour', or murder with impunity? A critical study of legislation and case law in Latin America / Silvia Pimentel, Valéria Pandjiarjian, and Juliana Belloque -- 'There is no "honour" in domestic violence, only shame!" Women's struggles against 'honour' crimes in the UK / Hannana Siddiqui -- Of consent and contradiction : forced marriages in Bangladesh / Dina M. Siddiqi -- From fathers to husbands : of love, death, and marriage in North India / Uma Chakravarti -- Tackling forced marriages in the Nordic countries : between women's rights and immigration control / Anja Bredal.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Subjects: 362.83; Women -- Violence against; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc; Honor killings; Honor -- Social aspects; Patriarchy; Women -- Violence against; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc; Honor killings; Honor -- Social aspects; Patriarchy; Honor killings; Honor -- Social aspects; Patriarchy; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc; Women -- Violence against
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848136984; 1848136986
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.