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  1. Sep 29, 2015 · Introduction. “Honor” means different things to different people at different times. In modern societies, honor refers primarily to a form of social status that attaches to integrity and sound character. But honor has an older meaning still found among some groups today—a form of social status founded on the willingness and ability to use ...

  2. Feb 24, 2021 · The individualistic value system of modernity does not necessarily mean that the modernization process aims to dismantle honor as a way of dealing with relationships in honor-based cultures. Rather, the state claims the right to govern the society and is thereby in charge of establishing the rules to be carried out at the individual level.

    • Arash Heydari, Ali Teymoori, Rose Trappes
    • 2021
  3. Oct 12, 2022 · Orientalist frames and control over women as symbols of honor and patriarchal codes maintain tensions of dichotomies between modernity and tradition and cultural relativism. These are thus challenged by emphasizing women’s burdens – as situated individuals – of multi-layered struggles which unfold from purporting to depict women’s realities.

  4. Feb 25, 2021 · So-called “honor” killings fall within the definition of femicide as the misogynistic killing of women and represents the brutal end of a broad continuum of VAWG (Gryzb, 2016; Sev’er & Yurdakul, 2001). “Honor” is said to reside within the bodies of women as women are the supposed “repositories” of “honor” (Gill et al., 2014 ...

    • Mohammad Mazher Idriss
    • 2021
  5. Jul 30, 2018 · In honor cultures, aggression is an acceptable reaction to insults and threats to honor. Ethnographic and sociological research on diverse honor cultures, such as Iraqi Kurdistan (Begikhani et al. 2015), Spain (Gilmore 1987), rural Greece (Safilios-Rothschild 1969), and Turkey (Oner-Ozkan and Gencoz 2006), suggests that members of honor cultures consider retaliation a duty when a particular ...

    • Aisha K. Gill
    • a.gill@roehampton.ac.uk
  6. Meharchand, Rebecca, "A Western Concept of Honour: Understanding Cultural Diferences, Realizing Patriarchal Similarities" (2016). 2016 Undergraduate Awards. 22. The term ‘honour’ is surrounded by ample amounts of cultural anxiety. First appearing in. with the ‘other’, the ‘third world’, the ‘backwards’ and ‘barbaric’ societies.

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  8. May 1, 2024 · Many of the included studies examined “honor-killings”, a term that has been criticized for its racialized depiction of “uncivilised minorities” (Gill & Brah, 2013) which is said to invoke a “geopolitics of colonialism and race” where certain cultures are viewed as under the influence of patriarchy (Grewal, 2013) and the barbarism of “the other” is contrasted with liberalism ...

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