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Honor killings are the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of patriarchy, deployed when all other measures of coercion and repression have failed. But these brutal crimes do not happen in a vacuum.
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© 2012 Nicole Pope
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Pope, N. (2012). Harmful Practices. In: Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012661_6
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