murder in the name of honor

One of the Utne Reader's 2009 Visionaries, Rana Husseini is a journalist on a mission: to tell the stories of women who are killed to restore "honor" to the family. Husseini fights to ?at least give them the right to be reported, that they died," and her new book, Murder in the Name of Honor, gives voice to many of these women, who were killed for "becoming too Westernized" or in some cases for being victims of rape. And lest you think that this is only a problem in Middle Eastern countries like Husseini's native Jordan, she notes that women in the U.S. have been killed for "honor" as well, and that the problem needs to be addressed in the context of violence against women, not cultural values.