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In honor of Fadime : murder and shame / Unni Wikan ; translated by Anna Paterson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wikan, Unni, 1944-
- Standardized Title:
- For ærens skyld. English
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Sahindal, Fadime.
- Honor killings--Sweden.
- Honor killings.
- Family violence--Sweden.
- Family violence.
- Kurds--Sweden.
- Kurds.
- Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and extended, partly rewritten version.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Fadime, in remembrance
- Sara: "too Swedish" for a right to live
- Pela, or history repeats itself
- What is honor?
- The cross-cultural context of honor killing
- Virginity, virility, and honor
- At a trial
- Little sister, thirteen years old
- A mother's story
- Naive and primitive?
- Strength born from grief
- Intermission : honor in the courtroom
- Nadia's case : another question of honor
- The Zedini case : was honor at stake?
- The Lørenskog murder : rethinking honor
- The man in the woods
- The mother
- Speaking in parliament
- Integration
- At stake : a perception of humanity
- Longing for the family.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-305).
- ISBN:
- 9780226896861
- 0226896862
- OCLC:
- 165478606
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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