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Book on Honor Violence, Abuse, Oppression
"At Twenty It Begins to Rot"
By Maria Hagberg of Sweden
maria.hagberg@socialtoolbox.se
He told me I could
not move, no matter my age. If I lived at home, and was
not married, I would obey him. I was his
property, "a cloth on the floor, one that is stepped on." Whether I
was thirty or forty, as long as I was not married, he could kick me. (Laura
age 25).
Honor-related violence and oppression against women is
the topic of Maria Hagberg's book AT 20 IT BEGINS TO ROT. It is based on
interviews with young women with different ethnic backgrounds who all lived in
Maria Hagberg is a social worker, consultant,
educator and social commentator with a long experience of working with
vulnerable women and children
Translation into English by Angela Barnett-Lindberg.
The
book is produced with support from the Olof Palme Memorial Fund
Maria Hagberg +46 733 484400
maria.hagberg@socialtoolbox.se
MD in social work
www.socialtoolbox.se
www.equlta.se
www.minheder.nu
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