The scholarly journal being critiqued is "Price of Honour: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World" by Jan Goodwin. As an award winning journalist, women's' rights activist and prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Jan Goodwin spent four years covering the Middle east through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. "Price of Honour: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World" is the …
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…that the position of women remains the barometer of change in the Muslim world. In the name of religion, women are being banned from travelling, working, studying, divorcing, voting, holding positions of power and from making their own decisions about major or minor aspects of their lives. Above all, they are being slaughtered in the name of honour, with the killer being allowed to go scott free. It is the price they pay for honour.