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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 as veiling, forced marriage, honour related and dowry violence, female genital ’mutilation’, lip plates and sex segregation in public space. With attention to the analytic utility of the notion of harmful cultural practices, this volume explores questions surrounding the contribution of feminist thought to international and NGO policies on such practices, whether western beauty practices should be analysed in similar terms, or should the notion as such from an anthropological perspective be rejected, how harmful cultural practices relate to processes of culturalization, religionization and secularization, and how they can be challenged, come to transform and disappear. Presenting concrete, empirical case studies from Africa, South East Asia, Europe and the UK Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology, development and law with interests in gender, the body, violence and women’s agency.

Human rights --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Abused women --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women --- Women's rights --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:316.346H20 --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Battered women --- Victims of crimes --- Battered woman syndrome --- Social conditions. --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen --- Europe --- United Kingdom --- Asia --- Africa --- Sociologie van het gezin. Sociologie van de seksualiteit --- Fundamentele rechten en vrijheden --- Volkenkunde. Culturele antropologie --- Verenigd Koninkrijk --- Europa --- Azië --- Afrika --- Femmes victimes de violence --- Discrimination sexuelle --- Femmes --- Conditions sociales. --- Statut juridique --- Social conditions --- Arranged marriages --- Gender --- Female circumcision --- Sexual organs --- Multiculturalism --- Norms --- Theory --- Mutilations --- Female body --- Book --- Femicide --- Discrimination --- Domestic violence --- Anthropology --- Veil