Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime / Dana M. Olwan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olwan, Dana M., 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Columbus, Ohio : The Ohio State University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts-looking specifically at a particular form of gender-based violence known as the "honor crime" and tracing how a range of legal, political, and literary texts inform normative and critical understandings of this term. Although studies now acknowledge the complicated mobilizations of honor crime discourses, the ways in which these discourses move across different geographies and contexts remain relatively unexplored. This book fills that void by providing a transnational feminist examination of the disparate yet interconnected sites of the US, Canada, Jordan, and Palestine, showing how the concept travels across nations and is deployed to promote hegemonic agendas.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books

ISBN:

9780814214664

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214510

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access