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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olwan, Dana M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

The Ohio State University Press 2021

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

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Genealogies of the "honor crime"

Transnational memorialization: the politics of remembering murdered Muslim women

Between the artist and the critic: Palestinian confrontations of violence

Against exceptionalism: historicizing US discourse on gender violence and racial terror

At the limits of legal justice: women's organizing and juridical activism in Jordan

Afterword: Intersectional feminism and the politics of hope and solidarity.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9780814281024

0814281028

9780814214664

0814214665

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214510