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“Women’s Equality and Culture in the Context of Identity Politics”

This paper seeks to distinguish culture as it is lived and practised in its fluid and contradictory forms from cultural identity projects that construct it in homogenous and static terms. Cultural projects hide issues of domination, othering and identities both within and amongst cultural...

“‘Anything With Two Heads Is a Monster’: Religious Leaders’ Perspectives on Marital Equality and Domestic Violence”

Religious leaders from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths were interviewed about their understanding of the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and religion. The present article explores the leaders’ understanding of how relationship dynamics relate to IPV, focusing particularly...

“‘Honour Killing’: Culture, Politics and Theory”

Beginning with a discussion of the Swedish case of Fadime Sahindal, this article then deliberates over honour killings of Kurdish women in general. The author includes the concepts of culture, patriarchy, nationalism, racism, education and religion in her analysis of the phenomenon of ‘honour...