Honor and the political economy of marriage : violence against women in Kurdistan region of Iraq / Joanne Peyton.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Peyton, Joanne, 1972- author.

Contributor:

• Deeyah, Khan, Contributor.
• Khan, Deeyah
• Péter, Berta, Contributor.

Series:

• The Politics of marriage and gender: global issues in local contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Marriage--Economic aspects--Iraq--Kurdistān.
• Kinship--Iraq--Kurdistān.
• Honor killings--Iraq--Kurdistān.
• Family violence--Iraq--Kurdistān.
• Women, Kurdish--Violence against--Iraq--Kurdistān.
• Women, Kurdish--Iraq--Kurdistān--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Summary:

'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several ‘honor’-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du’a Khalil Aswad, and campaigns against 'honor'-based violence by Kurdish feminists have drawn international attention to this phenomenon within Kurdish communities. Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage provides a description of ‘honor’-based violence that focuses upon the structure of the family rather than the perpetrator’s culture. The author, Joanne Payton, argues that within societies primarily organized by familial and marital connections, women’s ‘honor’ is a form of symbolic capital within a ‘political economy’ in which marriage organizes intergroup connections. Drawing on statistical analysis of original data contextualized with historical and anthropological readings, Payton explores forms of marriage and their relationship to ‘honor’, sketching changing norms around the familial control of women from agrarian/pastoral roots to the contemporary era.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Series Foreword
• Foreword
• Note on Orthography
• 1. Honor
• 2. The Problems of Earthly Existence
• 3. The Patriarchal Order
• 4. Marriage
• 5. Modernity
• 6. Quantitative Analysis
• 7. The End of Honor
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9788-0175-0

OCLC:

1125112344