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Why is it important?
This suggests that the act of suicide by self-burning holds a symbolic meaning, and is used to express certain kinds of dissatisfaction with traditional patriarchal structures in Kurdistan.
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I worked more on the analysis and writing. My co-author developed the methodology and data.
Dr Joanne L Payton
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This page is a summary of: Tongues of Fire: Women's Suicide and Self-Injury by Burns in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, The Sociological Review, May 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-954x.12153.
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