Honour-Based Violence

Honour-Based Violence
Author: Nazand Begikhani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317121309

’Honour'-based violence is a form of intimate violence committed against women (and some men) by husbands, fathers, brothers and male relatives. A very common social phenomenon, it has existed throughout history and in a wide variety of societies across the world, from white European to African cultures, from South and East Asia to Latin America. The most extreme form of Honour-based violence - 'honour' killing - tragically remains widespread. Over the last decade, national and international efforts, including new policy development and activist campaigns, have begun to challenge the practice. Based on a pioneering and unique study, conducted collaboratively by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol, the University of Roehampton and Kurdish Women's Rights Watch, this book is at the forefront of this new and challenging policy direction.

But It's Not Fair

But It's Not Fair
Author: Aneeta Prem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2011
Genre: Best friends
ISBN: 9780956975102

Harmful Traditional Practices

Harmful Traditional Practices
Author: Gerry Campbell
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020-07-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137533129

This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse. Often targeting women and young girls, these practices are often justified on spurious religious or traditional grounds but are all forms of abuse. Roberts, Campbell and Sarkaria have backgrounds in psychology, policing and law and have spent many years working at the forefront of attempts to end these practices. Harmful Traditional Practices is therefore a uniquely pragmatic book which aims to inform readers about these acts while identifying the best approaches towards ending and prosecuting against them.

Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation - The Practice and Its Prevention

Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation - The Practice and Its Prevention
Author: Efua Dorkenoo
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1873194609

Only from such models is it fully possible to explore such issues as the rights of women and of children, of the part which the well-being of women plays in the health of a nation, and also the strengths and weaknesses of the various international campaigns on the subject.

Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health

Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health
Author: Jane M. Ussher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351035614

The Routledge International Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women’s sexual and reproductive health. The handbook adopts a life-cycle approach to examine key milestones and events in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Contributors drawn from a range of disciplines, including psychology, medicine, nursing and midwifery, sociology, public health, women’s studies, and indigenous studies, explore issues through three main lenses: the biopsychosocial model feminist perspectives international, multidisciplinary perspectives that acknowledge the intersection of identities in women’s lives. The handbook presents an authoritative review of the field, with a focus on state-of-the-art work, encouraging future research and policy development in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Finally, the handbook will inform health care providers about the latest research and clinical developments, including women’s experiences of both normal and abnormal sexual and reproductive functions. Drawing upon international expertise from leading academics and clinicians in the field, this is essential reading for scholars and students interested in women’s reproductive health.

Female "circumcision" in Africa

Female
Author: Bettina Shell-Duncan
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781555879952

To ban excision in Meru, Kenya, Lynn Thomas

Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation

Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation
Author: Hilary Burrage
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-11-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1472419979

This ground-breaking handbook details the present situation with regard to female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain, referring also to other western nations where FGM occurs. It scrutinizes current pathways to eradicating this often dangerous, sometimes lethal, form of child abuse and gender-related violence. This book makes the case urgently for developing a shared, coherent model - a multi-disciplinary paradigm - as the basis to achieve the eradication of FGM. The text will be required reading for health, legal, educational and social services professionals, as well as researchers, policy makers, school governors, journalists and other concerned citizens.

Strategy for Equality Between Women and Men, 2010-2015

Strategy for Equality Between Women and Men, 2010-2015
Author:
Publisher: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Recoge: 1. Equal economic independence - 2. Equal pay for equal work and work of equal value - 3. Equality in decision-making - 4. Dignity, integrity and an end to gender-based violence - 5. Gender equality in external actions - 6. Horizontal issues.

Transcultural Bodies

Transcultural Bodies
Author: Ylva Hernlund
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2007-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813541387

Female "circumcision" or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to resolve the issue. Bringing together thirteen essays, Transcultural Bodies provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.