Honor, Face, and Violence: Cross-Cultural Literary Representations of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures

by Yan Sun, Michael Steppat, Mine Krause

Honor-related values are a source of gendered inequality and of violence. In so-called honor cultures, traditionally located in parts of the Middle East, Mediterranean regions, North Africa, and South America, honor translates into women's roles as dictated by family ideology. There is a direct link between male reputation and the female body. In these matters, East Asian face cultures are similar to but also different from honor cultures. For the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631789068
• ISBN13: 9783631789063
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.3"