The spectacle of the feminine Other: Reading migrant women's autobiographies about honour-based violence

Autobiographies of migrant women about their experiences with honour-based violence (HBV) reach many readers and are used in policy debates on women's emancipation and immigrant integration. Migrant women's
central position in this nationalistic debate stigmatises them as passive victims, their husbands as violent and
their culture as oppressive. We read 16 autobiographies by female authors to analyse how the spectacle of the
other is represented in their stories.