Longman, Chia

Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices: Gender, Culture and Coercion

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ISBN 13:
9780367598457
author:
Longman, Chia
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Routledge
language:
English
Publication Year:
2020
Pages:
228
Dimensions:
23.1 x 15.8 x 1.5 centimeters (0
Genre:
Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Sociology,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£47.16

Description

This volume explores 'harmful cultural practices', a term used by organizations working within a human rights framework to describe discriminatory practices against women in the global South. It draws on recent work by feminists across the social sciences, as well as activists from around the world, to discuss and present research on practices such as veiling, forced marriage, honour-related violence, female genital mutilation, lip plates, and sex segregation.

The book examines the contribution of feminist thought to international policies on these practices, and questions whether Western beauty practices should be analysed in similar terms. It also explores how harmful cultural practices relate to processes of culturalization, religionization, and secularization, and how they can be challenged and transformed.

Featuring concrete, empirical case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the UK, this book will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology, development, and law with a focus on gender, the body, violence, and women's agency.

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