Nashville, Tennessee & London, England:
New English Review Press
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2018
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348 S.
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| Einrichtung: | TERRE DES FEMMES | Berlin |
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| Signatur: | M 03 Che I |
| Verfasst von: | Chesler, Phyllis |
| Jahr: | 2018 |
| ISBN: | 1943003149 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| An honor killing is the cold-blooded murder of girls and women simply because they are female. Being born female in a shame-and-honor culture is, potentially, a capital crime; every girl has to keep proving that she is not dishonoring her family; even so, an innocent girl can be falsely accused and killed on the spot.\[W9]\Dr. Phyllis Chesler has been studying the nature of honor killings for the last fifteen years. During that time she has published four studies at Middle East Quarterly and is working on a fifth. While this barbaric custom is tribal in origin, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Islam have not tried to abolish it as a crime against God or humanity.\[W9]\Honor killings are also a family conspiracy, one in which women (mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, mothers-in law), as well as men (fathers, brothers, cousins, uncles, grandfathers) play a role. Those girls and women who manage to escape must live in hiding for the rest of their lives as their families will never stop coming after them. | |
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