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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 Sweden all or almost all their life’s. They talk about childhood, youth, health and sexuality, family conditions, family work, about their own experiences of violence, abuse and deprivation, but also about how they finally managed to break away and take the step to become independent. The book concludes with an analysis based on women's stories where the author also addresses the role of religion.

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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