Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime
Author(s)
Olwan, Dana M.
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Literary Criticism; Middle Eastern; Social Science; Islamic Studies; Social Science; Gender StudiesDOI
https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214510ISBN
9780814214664Publisher
The Ohio State University PressPublisher website
https://ohiostatepress.org/Publication date and place
2021Imprint
The Ohio State University PressClassification
Literature: history and criticism
Social groups: religious groups and communities
Gender studies, gender groups