"The killing seemed to be necessary": Arab cultural affiliation as an extenuating circumstance in a Swedish verdict
1998; Routledge; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/08038749850167798
ISSN1502-394X
Autores Tópico(s)Gender and Women's Rights
ResumoThis article discusses a Swedish verdict in which the cultural affiliation of an Arab man who has killed his own daughter is used as an extenuating circumstance. The meaning of gender functions as a point of departure from which the court's description of Arab and Swedish culture as opposites is called into question. That which, on an explicit level, is said to be an expression of opposite norms for gender might, if one takes a closer look, show crucial similarities.
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