'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several âhonorâ-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Duâa Khalil Aswad, and campaigns against 'honor'-based violence by Kurdish feminists have drawn international attention to this phenomenon within Kurdish communities. Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage provides a description of âhonorâ-based violence that focuses upon the structure of the family rather than the perpetratorâs culture. The author, Joanne Payton, argues that within societies primarily organized by familial and marital connections, womenâs âhonorâ is a form of symbolic capital within a âpolitical economyâ in which marriage organizes intergroup connections.Drawing on statistical analysis of original data contextualized with historical and anthropological readings, Payton explores forms of marriage and their relationship to âhonorâ, sketching changing norms around the familial control of women from agrarian/pastoral roots to the contemporary era.
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Aug 13, 2022
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