Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

In honor of Fadime : murder and shame / Unni Wikan ; translated by Anna Paterson.

by Wikan, Unni, 1944-

View full image

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

Sahindal, Fadime.

Honor killings -- Sweden.

Family violence -- Sweden.

Kurds -- Sweden.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007033557-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007033557-b.html

9780226896861 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226896862 (cloth : alk. paper)

305 p. ; 22 cm.

Revised and extended, partly rewritten version.

Fadime, in remembrance -- Sara: "too Swedish" for a right to live -- Pela, or history repeats itself -- What is honor? -- The cross-cultural context of honor killing -- Virginity, virility, and honor -- At a trial -- Little sister, thirteen years old -- A mother's story -- Naive or primitive? -- Strength born from grief -- Intermission : honor in the courtroom -- Nadia's case : another question of honor --The Zedini case : was honor at stake? -- The Lörenskog murder : rethinking honor -- The man in the woods -- The mother -- Speaking in parliament -- Integration -- At stake : a perception of humanity -- Longing for a family.

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal