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Harmful Traditional Practices

Gerry Campbell, Karl Roberts, Neelam Sarkaria

2020Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks23 citationsDOI

Abstract

​This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse, often targeting women or young girls.

Topics & Concepts

HonourFaithForced marriageCriminologyFemale circumcisionSociologyGender studiesPsychologyPolitical scienceLawMedicineTheologyGynecologyPhilosophyFemale Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues