| LC control no. | sh2003003469 |
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| Topical heading | Honor killings |
| Variant(s) | Family honor killings Killings, Honor |
| See also | Homicide |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on the practice in certain cultures in which male members of a family are duty-bound to kill a female family member whose alleged sexual transgressions are perceived to have brought dishonor and shame to their family. |
| Found in | Work cat.: Khouri, N. Honor lost : love and death in modern-day Jordan, c2003. Library Journal review of Honor lost, Jan. 2003: p. 139 (Honor killings) World News Digest, June 8, 2000. |
| Not found in | Muslim almanac (1996); Oxford Encyc. of the Modern Islamic world (1995); Encyc. of the modern Middle East (1996) |
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