Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage : Violence Against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several 'honor'-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du'a Khalil Aswad, and campaign...

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Main Author: Payton, Joanne
Contributors: Khan, Deeyah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019.
Series:Politics of Marriage and Gender, Global Ser.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central