Shame and honour: The violence of gendered norms under conditions of global crisis

Santi Rozario (1992)) creatively and subtly explores shame and honour to understand village life in Doria, Bangladesh. Moving beyond descriptive accounts and causal explanations, she examines the values that guide village norms and the political economy that constitutes their implementation. In this...

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Published inWomen's studies international forum Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 305 - 315
Main Author Feldman, Shelley
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2010
Elsevier Science Ltd
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Bangladesh
Ethics
Gender
Gender studies
Honour and shame
Morality
Political Economy
Regulation
Rural life
Sanctions
Shame
Social norms
Stigma
Suicide
Suicides & suicide attempts
Values
Villages
Violence
Women
Bangladesh
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Summary:Santi Rozario (1992)) creatively and subtly explores shame and honour to understand village life in Doria, Bangladesh. Moving beyond descriptive accounts and causal explanations, she examines the values that guide village norms and the political economy that constitutes their implementation. In this paper, I contribute to the effort to understand gendered interpretations of normative practice by highlighting the institutional and regulatory regimes that constitute and legitimate forms of rule that appeal to idioms of shame and honour, fear, and humiliation. Engaging a moral regulation analytic of overlapping civil, religious and customary norms and expectations, I suggest that sanctions for noncompliance can reveal women's agentic capacities in decisions about suicide.
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ISSN:0277-5395
1879-243X
DOI:10.1016/j.wsif.2010.02.004