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‘Honor' crimes target women and girls for transgressions against the moral code of the community, punishing female sexual autonomy in particular. This book argues that ‘honor’ represents women’s conformity to culturally-enforced standards of marriageability and underpins family and marital connections which form a primary method of organization within the community.
List of contents
Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Foreword by Deeyah Khan
Note on Orthography
Chapter 1: Honor
Chapter 2: The Problems of Earthly Existence
Chapter 3: The Patriarchal Order
Chapter 4: Marriage
Chapter 5: Modernity
Chapter 6: Quantitative Analysis
Chapter 7: The End of Honor
Acknowledgements
References
Index
Appendix
About the author
Joanne Payton has worked with the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organization since 2005. She also works with the media company Fuuse in London, United Kingdom, appearing in the Emmy-award winning film Banaz: A Love Story, which explores an 'honor' killing.
Summary
Provides a description of “honour”-based violence that focuses on the structure of the family rather than the perpetrator's culture. Joanne Payton argues that within societies primarily organised by familial connections, women's “honour” is a form of symbolic capital within a “political economy” in which marriage organises intergroup connections.
