Policing Challenges in Turkey: Dealing with Honor Killings as Crime or as Culturally Accepted Norm

2011 ◽  
pp. 421-448
Keyword(s):  
Honor Killings

The Right to Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Brysk
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Honor Killings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Right

Chapter 6 concerns denial of women’s right to life . The new frame of “femicide” has dramatically increased attention to gender-based killing in the public and private sphere, and encompasses a spectrum of threats and assaults that culminate in murder. The chapter follows the threats to women’s security through the life cycle, beginning with cases of “gendercide” (sex-selective abortion and infanticide) in India, then moving to honor killings in Turkey and Pakistan. We examine public femicide in Mexico and Central America—with comparison to the disappearance of indigenous women in Canada, as “second-class citizens” in a developed democracy. The chapter continues mapping the panorama of private sphere domestic violence in the semi-liberal gender regimes of China, Russia, Brazil, and the Philippines, along with a range of responses in law, public policy, advocacy, and protest.

scholarly journals COUNTERING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN IRAQI KURDISTAN: STATE-BUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaniv Voller
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Transnational Advocacy ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Honor Killings ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Gender Based

AbstractThe struggle against gender-based violence in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region has witnessed some significant achievements since the late 1990s. A subject long excluded from public discourse in the region, it has now moved increasingly into the mainstream, compelling the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to take legal and practical measures against such practices as honor killings, female genital mutilation, and domestic violence. This article traces the sources of these shifts in the KRG's stance, looking especially at the role of transnational women's rights networks in the region. It highlights these networks’ successful strategy of binding their cause to the KRG's endeavor to legitimize and consolidate its contested sovereignty over the Kurdistan Region. In doing so, the paper addresses an underexplored subject in the literature on women's rights campaigns in the Kurdistan Region and contributes to the study of transnational advocacy as a source of normative change.

Murder, Honor, and Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Juliane Hammer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Production ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
Honor Killings ◽  
Muslim Communities

This chapter analyzes debates about Muslims and domestic violence in mainstream U.S. media outlets and other publications. It traces the attempts at self-representation by Muslims and at taking control of the narratives that surround reporting on domestic violence (DV) incidents in Muslim communities. Central to discussions of Muslims and DV are the othering of Muslim communities through insisting on honor and honor killings as the only available frame and the simultaneous construction of Muslims as foreign to the United States through notions of culture that can include racialization as well as religious othering. The chapter then explores the connection between political goals and media production as they intersect with the lives of American Muslims and with the work of Muslim advocates against domestic violence. It also looks at a particular domestic violence murder in 2009, that of Aasiya Zubair, and its aftermath.

“Wanted to Save Her Honor”

Graphic News ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 160-194
Author(s):  
Amanda Frisken
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Honor Killings ◽  
Elizabeth Cady Stanton ◽  
Crime Of Passion

This chapter shows how, in 1895-96, women’s rights activists attempted to use sensationalism to critique the double standard in domestic violence prosecution. Lacking illustrated newspapers of their own, veteran activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell, used the pages of the New York Recorder, World, and Journal to apply the “crime of passion” defense to the case of Maria Barbella (or Barberi), a woman tried twice for killing a man who had seduced and dishonored her. Their efforts to introduce into the daily papers a complex debate about women’s rights and the double standard in legal protection helped win the campaign for Barbella’s acquittal. It had the unintended cost of undermining women’s standing to critique honor killings by men.

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