Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Genealogies of the "honor crime" -- Transnational memorialization: the politics of remembering murdered Muslim women -- Between the artist and the critic: Palestinian confrontations of violence -- Against exceptionalism: historicizing US discourse on gender violence and racial terror -- At the limits of legal justice: women's organizing and juridical activism in Jordan -- Afterword: Intersectional feminism and the politics of hope and solidarity.
Summary:
"A transnational feminist examination of how responses to gender-based violence known as the 'honor crime' become entangled in national debates about belonging and citizenship in legal, political, and literary genres, across the United States, Canada, Jordan, and Palestine"-- Provided by publisher.
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