Body evidence : intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

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When South Asians immigrated to the United States in the 1970s, they were passionately driven to achieve economic stability and socialize the next generation to retain the traditions of their home culture. The immigrant community went to great lengths to project an impeccable public image by denying...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dasgupta, Shamita Das (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Family violence > United States.
Victims of family violence > United States.
South Asian American women > Violence against > United States.
South Asian American women > Services for > United States.
Women immigrants > Violence against > United States.
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
South Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Violence familiale > États-Unis.
Victimes de violence familiale > États-Unis.
Américaines d'origine sud-asiatique > Violence envers > États-Unis.
Américaines d'origine sud-asiatique > Services > États-Unis.
Immigrantes > Violence envers > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine sud-asiatique > Conditions sociales.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Domestic Partner Abuse.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Elder Abuse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Family violence
South Asian Americans > Social conditions
Victims of family violence
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Shamita Das Dasgupta
  • Understanding South Asian immigrant women's experiences of violence / Anitha Venkatramani-Kothari
  • The many faces of domestic violence in the South Asian American Muslim community / Ruksana Ayyub
  • Minority within a minority : reflecting on marital violence in the Nepali American community / Bidya Ranjeet and Bandana Purkayastha
  • "Virginity is everything" : sexuality in the context of intimate partner violence in the South Asian community / Sandeep Hunjan and Shelagh Towson
  • The aftermath of September 11 : an anti-domestic violence perspective / Maunica Sthanki
  • Mental and emotional wounds of domestic violence in South Asian women / Diya Kallivayalil
  • Fragmented self : violence and body image among South Asian American women / V.G. Julie Rajan
  • Silences that prevail when the perpetrators are our own / Grace Poore
  • The violence that dares not speak its name : invisibility in the lives of lesbian and bisexual South Asian American women / Prajna Paramita Choudhury
  • The trap of multiculturalism : battered South Asian women and health care / Sunita Puri
  • Ahimsa and the contextual realities of woman abuse in the Jain community / Shamita Das Dasgupta and Shashi Jain
  • A communicative perspective on assisting battered Asian Indian immigrant women / Mandeep Grewal
  • Law's culture and cultural difference / Sharmila Rudrappa
  • Middle class, documented, and helpless : the H-4 visa bind / Shivali Shah
  • Battered South Asian women in U.S. courts / Shamita Das Dasgupta
  • Navigating gender, immigration, and domestic violence : advocacy with work visa holders / Rupaleem Bhuyan
  • Local and global undivided : transnational exploitation and violence against South Asian women / Sujatha Anbuselvi Jesudason
  • From Dhaka to Cincinnati : tracing the trajectory of a transnational violence against women campaign / Elora Halim Chowdhury.

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