This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse. Often targeting women and young girls, these practices are oft…
This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse. Often targeting women and young girls, these practices are oft…
רצח על רקע טענות לחילול כבוד המשפחה הוא מעשה חמור המשקף תופעה עתיקה שהשתרשה בתרבויות שונות ברחבי העולם מקדמת דנא. עסקינן בתופעה חוצה תרבויות ודתות אשר בדרך כלל מאפיינת חברות מסורתיות המורכבות מיחידות חברתיות של משפחה מורחבת )חמולה(. ביחידות החברתיות הללו הפרטים השייכים להן פועלי…
An honor killing is a murder committed against a woman for actual or perceived immoral behavior that is deemed to have breached the honor of a household or community. The most common motive for honor killings is a suspicion of intimate relations between a woman and a man, whethe…
Honor killings are perpetrated for a wide range of offenses in several parts of the world, including marital infidelity, pre-marital sex, flirting, and divorce. This study investigated the opinions of 18 to 22 Muslim American women, born in the United States, aged 25 to 40, of S…
In this dissertation, I explore the subject of male identity in Israeli-Palestinian society; how it is constructed through the all-important cultural category of sharaf (glossed as “honor”). Sharaf is shown to be a crucial element among the intersubjective assumptions, rules, an…
