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Women in the crossfire : understanding and ending honor killing / Robert Paul Churchill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Churchill, Robert Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Violence against.
- Women.
- Honor killings.
- Women's rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-046858-0
- 0-19-046859-9
- 0-19-046857-2
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