Women and Suicide in Iran: Law, Marriage and Honour-Killing

ISBN-13: 9781032077253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 144 str.

S. Behnaz Hosseini

Opis

Drawing on feminist theory, as well as theory surrounding the correlation between poverty and suicide, this study explores the increased rate of suicide among women in western Iran.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Preface  1. Traditional Society and Violence against Women  2. Honour Killings and the Rule of Islamic Law  3. Child Marriage and Its Consequences: Poverty, Addiction, and Divorce  4. Marriage and Life after Divorce: Caught between Tradition, Poverty, and Suicide  References

O autorze

S. Behnaz Hosseini is a Visiting research fellow in Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, University of Victoria in Canada and an Honorary Fellow in the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin College.