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Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices Gender, Culture and Coercion
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices
Biography
Chia Longman is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. Tamsin Bradley is Reader in International Development Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
’Providing a critical genealogy of the concept of harmful cultural practices (HCP) and its analytical potential across a range of contexts, this diverse and thought-provoking collection is a must read for anyone interested in gendered embodied practices globally. Addressing the usefulness of the category of HCP in theory, policy and practice, contributors engage meaningfully with the controversies its use has generated in a postcolonial frame. As such, this is a book that incisively opens up and enriches debates concerning the links between gender, culture and violence cross-culturally.’ Carolyn Pedwell, University of Kent, UK
