Type:	Book Chapter
Title:	Whose honour, whose shame? Gender based violence, rights and health
Other Titles:	Violence against women in Asian societies
Authors:	Astbury, Jill
Keywords:	Cross-cultural;Human rights
Year:	2003
Publisher:	Curzon
Notes:	This concluding chapter in Violence Against Women in Asian Societies:explores the importance of examining violence against women from a rights-based perspective and the various ways in which domestic and other forms of gender-based violence violate fundamental human rights. The capacity of a rights discourse to open up new conceptions of culturally entrenched behaviors and actions is considered and the implications of such an approach for data collection, programme development and implementation are discussed.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/11148
ISBN:	9780700717415
Physical description:	288 p. ; cm.
Appears in Collections:	Book Chapters

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