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Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices - Gender, Culture and Coercion (Paperback)
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Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices - Gender, Culture and Coercion (Paperback)
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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 discusses and presents research on
practices such as veiling, forced marriage, honour related and
dowry violence, female genital 'mutilation', lip plates and sex
segregation in public space. With attention to the analytic utility
of the notion of harmful cultural practices, this volume explores
questions surrounding the contribution of feminist thought to
international and NGO policies on such practices, whether western
beauty practices should be analysed in similar terms, or should the
notion as such from an anthropological perspective be rejected, how
harmful cultural practices relate to processes of culturalization,
religionization and secularization, and how they can be challenged,
come to transform and disappear. Presenting concrete, empirical
case studies from Africa, South East Asia, Europe and the UK
Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices will be of interest to
scholars of sociology, anthropology, development and law with
interests in gender, the body, violence and women's agency.
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