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A Clash of Discourses: Femicides or Honor Killings?

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Re-Imagining the Other

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The clash of ignorance (Karim & Eid, 2012) characteristic of Western media discourses concerning Muslims as alien Others, and Muslim women, in particular, is especially evident in cases concerning intimate/domestic violence within Muslim families. Indeed, the victimization of Muslim women by an ultra-patriarchal construction of Islam has been a constant motif paving the way for convenient and ideologically charged rescue missions. It is thus not surprising that when compared to the generally pedestrian news coverage pertaining to stories about domestic violence, the subject of honor killings eclipses all else.

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Jiwani, Y. (2014). A Clash of Discourses: Femicides or Honor Killings?. In: Eid, M., Karim, K.H. (eds) Re-Imagining the Other. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403667_7

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