Honour Killing

"Honour killing is one form of extreme violence perpetrated on women by men in certain societies. Most commonly, it is a premeditated killing of a girl or woman who is perceived to have besmirched her family's honour by her sexual conduct. It is committed by the accused woman's male kin in the name of restoring the family's honour." "The genesis of honour killing is deeply rooted in history and has been linked by various scholars with ascendant patriarchal structures in human societies. It is not peculiar to particular geographical regions or belief systems. A large number have been reported, whether in the past or currently, from Mediterranean, Latin American, and some Muslim societies. Pakistan has one of the highest incidences in the contemporary world." "As a hermeneutic and critical study, this book borrows from theorists and philosophers as diverse as Gebser, Foucault, Barthes, Riceour, Gramsci, Said, and Spivak. Contextualizing and analysing the various representative discourses in Pakistan, it comes to some understanding of the possible cultural, religious, and historical reasons that create the exigency for men to kill a female member of their own family. It looks at honour killing as a message in several contexts of Pakistani national life and analyses how these messages are communicated, and towards what rhetorical ends."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

1

Pages

350

ISBN

9780195476316

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