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Women in the crossfire : understanding and ending honor killing / Robert Paul Churchill.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]Description: xiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190468569 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Women in the crossfireDDC classification:
  • 362.88 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6250.4.W65 C577 2018
Contents:
Cover; Half title; Women in the Crossfire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; 1. First Steps Toward Understanding Honor Killing; 2. Empirical Research on Honor Killing; 3. The Social Realities of Honor; 4. Socialization, Gender, and Violence-​Prone Personality; 5. Warrior Masculinity and Female Victimization; 6. The Cultural Evolution of Honor Killing; 7. Providing Protection and Leveraged Reform; 8. Moral Transformation: Taking Honor Out of Honor Killing; 9. Moral Transformation: Sustainability and Community Ownership; Subject Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half title; Women in the Crossfire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; 1. First Steps Toward Understanding Honor Killing; 2. Empirical Research on Honor Killing; 3. The Social Realities of Honor; 4. Socialization, Gender, and Violence-​Prone Personality; 5. Warrior Masculinity and Female Victimization; 6. The Cultural Evolution of Honor Killing; 7. Providing Protection and Leveraged Reform; 8. Moral Transformation: Taking Honor Out of Honor Killing; 9. Moral Transformation: Sustainability and Community Ownership; Subject Index

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