Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices write by Chia Longman. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores a variety of ’harmful cultural practices’: a term increasingly employed by organizations working within a human rights framework to refer to certain discriminatory practices against women in the global South. Drawing on recent work by feminists across the social sciences, as well as activists from around the world, this volume discusses and presents research on practices such as veiling, forced marriage, honour related and dowry violence, female genital ’mutilation’, lip plates and sex segregation in public space. With attention to the analytic utility of the notion of harmful cultural practices, this volume explores questions surrounding the contribution of feminist thought to international and NGO policies on such practices, whether western beauty practices should be analysed in similar terms, or should the notion as such from an anthropological perspective be rejected, how harmful cultural practices relate to processes of culturalization, religionization and secularization, and how they can be challenged, come to transform and disappear. Presenting concrete, empirical case studies from Africa, South East Asia, Europe and the UK Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology, development and law with interests in gender, the body, violence and women’s agency.
Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices
Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices write by Chia Longman. This book was released on 2015. Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices
Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices write by Chia Longman. This book was released on 2015-08-01. Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores a variety of 'harmful cultural practices': a term increasingly employed by organizations working within a human rights framework to refer to certain discriminatory practices against women in the global South. Drawing on recent work by feminists across the social sciences, as well as activists from around the world, this volume presents research on practices such as child and forced marriage, gender-based violence, polygamy, female genital 'mutilation', honour crimes and unequal marital and inheritance rights.
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in International Law
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in International Law write by Bharat H. Desai. This book was released on 2022-06-18. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view. It identifies the reasons behind SGBV against women with a specific focus on cultural practices that try to justify it and highlights the legal challenges related to the topic for both national and international justice systems. The seven chapters of the book are: i) Introduction ii) SGBV a global concern; iii) International legal protection; iv) Role of international institutions; v) Role of cultural factors and vi) Challenges vii) Conclusions. In the light of concerted global efforts to bring to an end, or at least severely contain SGBV against women, the book provides a future roadmap to the United Nations system, States, international institutions, multidisciplinary scholars, civil society organizations and other global actors. The book contains a Foreword by Peter Maurer, President of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Religion and Gender-Based Violence
Religion and Gender-Based Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Gender-Based Violence write by Brenda Bartelink. This book was released on 2022-09-15. Religion and Gender-Based Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication. International donors are committed to reducing and ending gender-related harm, particularly violence against women, but clear answers as to why harmful practices persist are often slow to emerge. Theological research struggles to find strong links, yet religion is often referred to by local people as the reason for practices such as female cutting, male circumcision, early and forced marriage, nutritional taboos and birth practices, mandatory (un)veiling, harmful spiritual practices, polygamy, gender unequal marital and inheritance rights and so-called honour crimes. This book presents empirical cases of religious, non-religious and secular actors, including local and international governmental and non-governmental agencies in the fields of development, health and equality policies. Tracing their different understandings of how religion is entangled with gender-based violence both contextually as well as historically, the book sheds light on helpful and unhelpful as well as erroneous and harmful understandings of such practices in local and global perspectives. Centralising the perspectives of women themselves, this book will be an important read for development practitioners and policy makers, as well as for researchers across religious studies, gender studies, and global development.
