Unveiling Honour and Marginalization in Honor Unmasked (2017) by Nafisa Shah

This paper examines the overlapping forces of gender, power, and justice in tribal and state laws in South Asia with special focus on honor-based violence and customary dispute resolution systems. Using the Three-Dimensional Model of Critical Discourse Analysis developed by Fairclough and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA), the paper will examine a range of legal texts, case-based narratives, and oral narratives in order to reveal the manner in which discursive power is created and maintained by patriarchy. This particular focus is put on culturally established practices like mairh (peace delegation), faislo (sexual consent), and sang (women as compensation) in an attempt to show how these linguistic and ritual practices have been used to legitimize male dominance at the expense of female agency. Such discourses make gender inequality natural by enshrining it in tradition, legality, and collective memory

Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Honor · Honour · Narrative · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Law in Society and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts