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 (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Understanding and ending honor killing

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.

Contents:

1. First steps toward understanding honor killing

2. Empirical research on honor killing

3. Social realities of honor

4. Socialization, gender, and violence-prone personality

5. Warrior masculinity and female victimization

6. Cultural evolution of honor killing

7. Providing protection and leveraged reform

8. Moral transformation: taking honor out of honor killing

9. Moral transformation: sustainability and community ownership.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-046858-0

0-19-046859-9

0-19-046857-2