Women in the crossfire : understanding and ending honor killing /
Robert Paul Churchill.
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half title; Women in the Crossfire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; 1. First Steps Toward Understanding Honor Killing; 2. Empirical Research on Honor Killing; 3. The Social Realities of Honor; 4. Socialization, Gender, and Violence-​Prone Personality; 5. Warrior Masculinity and Female Victimization; 6. The Cultural Evolution of Honor Killing; 7. Providing Protection and Leveraged Reform; 8. Moral Transformation: Taking Honor Out of Honor Killing; 9. Moral Transformation: Sustainability and Community Ownership; Subject Index
Women in the Crossfire seeks to understand the practice of honor killing from a variety of cultural and disciplinary perspectives and analyzes empirical research on honor killing, including a large original study published here for the first time. The book examines the root causes of honor killing both in human psychology and cultural evolution, and it recommends specific measures for protecting potential victims and ending honor killing altogether.