The Woman Of Honour

The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. So who are they? Pure and virtuous Madonnas or dangerous Godmothers? Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. But, as Milka Kahn and Anne Veron reveal in this absorbing book, women have always been at the heart of Italy's criminal organisations. While the men are behind bars or on the run, it is left to their wives and mothers to uphold and pass on the 'family values'. Once widowed, some push their sons to vendetta; others become mafia chiefs in their own right. Yet many also decide to risk their lives, collaborating with the authorities and renouncing mafia society in search of normality.Through first-hand accounts of submission, complicity and revolt, Women of Honour paints a complex and fascinating portrait of the women in Italy's mafias who have overcome a culture of silence to share their extraordinary stories.--

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the defence of 'honour' and 'provocation' in different countries of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. This timely volume is distinctive in approach and content, highlighting activist and practice-orientated academic perspectives from both the South and the North. The authors give voice to the struggle to locate 'crimes of honour' firmly within the international framework of violence against women and human rights, rather than positioning these abuses as specific to particular cultures or communities. The first of its kind, this book serves as a resource in addressing 'honour crimes' and, more broadly, violence against women, and will be of interest to a multi-disciplinary academic audience as well as to lawyers, policy-makers and activists.

Things are going well for Molly, especially her new restaurant delivery service. All she needs now is a good man who will love her and help her make a happy family. But for some reason, she keeps getting involved with the wrong men. After finding out the man she is dating is married, she is accosted by his angry brother-in-law, Richard. Fed up, Molly decides to cut her losses and focus on her work, only to run into Richard again at her next catering gig!

WOMAN OF HONOUR was set up by THE HOLY SPIRIT to unravel the hidden cause behind every successful woman in human history. Over time, we have seen how many girls grow up to be nonentities, which does not fit God's original plans for their lives. In this series, the matriarch's success formula will be deciphered unto you. This is not a book as many think. It is a Zion Frontiers formula set up in space to encourage the girls, ladies, and women of these last days. . Allow me to relate the words of a great woman-Evergreen Owoicho,"The very moment I placed this book on my fingertips, I began to feel reactions of various kinds taking effect in my blood. I know well that I was not reading an ordinary book other than a compilation of mysteries! Reading this book made me realize more than what I knew as a woman. It channels the distinct and unrevealed knowledge that I have longed for throughout my time in this mortal realm. . As you go through this book, you will come to discover that there is a lot to be said for everything you know. One fascinating thing that I find remarkable about this book is that the author communicated it on the platform of godliness; teaching, revealing, and you know, disclosing the original nature of God to all the women, the ladies, and even the little girls out there. You know what? This edition is not just for the female gender alone but for everyone. Men can read it too, no matter what title of this edition. I love the part where he linked an honorable woman with a doctor whose job is to inoculate her children with the virtue of godliness and to act as a missionary who will help the end-time revival movements to the ends of the earth. . With all due respect to the reader of the mysteries set up, I have a desire to make a simple request: tell others about this book."

A unique and often shocking testimony, Honour and Shame gives access for the first time to the world of Iraqi women. Ranging from executives to illiterate housewives, the women speak with extraordinary frankness of sex and marriage, physical and mental violence, the fear of scandal, and their indoctrination into the ideology of honour and shame. Their words are frequently moving: 'We started to have problems the first day we met. He raped me in the train on our wedding day. I was 13 years old.' 'Sex is the most important thing to my husband. He always wants me to dress up in my sexiest nightgown and respond happily and willingly to all his desires...To tell you the truth, I don't care much about sex.' 'He beats me whenever he feels angry or upset. I always forgive him. I say to myself, where can I go after all?' On the basis of an in-depth study conducted over several years, the author -who herself comes from this society- builds a picture of Iraqi women's lives from birth to old age. Although the book's main focus is on Iraq, there are many thought-provoking cross-cultural comparisons between Third World women and women in Western societies.