Chia Longman, Tamsin Bradley

Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices

Gender, Culture and Coercion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781472428882
• ISBN-10: 1472428889
• Artikelnr.: 51417577

Autorenporträt

Chia Longman is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. Tamsin Bradley is Reader in International Development Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

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Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices

Rezensionen

'Providing a critical genealogy of the concept of harmful cultural practices (HCP) and its analytical potential across a range of contexts, this diverse and thought-provoking collection is a must read for anyone interested in gendered embodied practices globally. Addressing the usefulness of the category of HCP in theory, policy and practice, contributors engage meaningfully with the controversies its use has generated in a postcolonial frame. As such, this is a book that incisively opens up and enriches debates concerning the links between gender, culture and violence cross-culturally.' Carolyn Pedwell, University of Kent, UK