Buch
Sammelband
Body evidence : intimate violence against South Asian women in America
Verfasst von:
Dasgupta, Shamita Das
New Brunswick [u. a.]:
Rutgers Univ. Press
,
2007
,
305 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Dasgupta, Shamita Das |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 235mm x 155mm |
| ISBN: | 081353982X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| When South Asians immigrated to the United States in great numbers in the 1970s, they were passionately driven to achieve economic stability and socialize the next generation to retain the traditions of their home culture. During these years, the immigrant community went to great lengths to project an impeccable public image by denying the existence of social problems such as domestic violence, sexual assault, mental illness, racism, and intergenerational conflict. It was not until recently that activist groups have worked to bring these issues out into the open. In "Body Evidence", more than twenty scholars and public health professionals uncover the unique challenges faced by victims of domestic violence in South Asian American communities. Topics include cultural obsession with women's chastity and virginity; the continued silence surrounding intimate violence among women who identify themselves as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; the consequences of refusing marriage proposals or failing to meet dowry demands; and, ultimately, the ways in which U.S. courts often confuse and exacerbate the plights of these women. I. The body chart: mapping domestic violence in South Asian Communities: Anitha Venkataramani-Kothari: Understanding South Asian immigrant women's experiences of violence (S. 11); Ruksana Ayyub: The many faces of domestic violence in the South Asian American muslim community (S. 24); Bidya Ranjeet, Bandana Purkyaystha: Minority within a minority: reflecting on marital violence in the Nepali American community (S. 38); Sandeep Hunjan, Shelagh Towson: "Virginity is everything": sexuality in the context of intimate partner violence in the South Asian community (S. 53); Maunica Sthanki: The aftermath of September 11: an anti-domestic violence perspective (S. 68); II. The wounded body: emerging issues in domestic violence work: Diya Kallivayalil: Mental and emotional wounds of domestic violence in South Asian women (S. 81); V. G. Julie Rajan: Fragmented self: violence and body image among South Asian American women (S. 94); Grace Poore: Silences that prevail when the prepetrators are our own (S. 107); Prajna Paramita Choudhury: The violence that dares not speak its name: invisibility of lesbian and bisexual South Asian American women (S. 126); Sunita Puri: The trap of multiculturalism: battered South Asian women and health care (S. 139); Shamita Das Dasgupta, Shashi Jain: Ahimsa and the contextual realities of woman abuse in the Jain community (S. 152); Mandeep Grewal: A communicative perspective on assisting battered Asian Indian immigrant women (S. 164); III. The body evidence: law and South Asian battered women: Sharmila Rudrappa: Law's culture and cultural difference (S. 181); Shivali Shah: Middle class, documented, and helpless: the H-4 visa bind (S. 195); Shamita Das Dasgupta: Battered South Asian women in U.S. courts (S. 211); IV. The body in action: activism and transnational anti-domestic violence work: Rupaleem Bhuyan: Navigation gender, immigration, and domestic violence: advocacy with work visa holders (S. 229); Sujatha Anbuselvi Jesudason: Local and global undivided: transnational exploitation and violence against South Asian women (S. 243); Elora Halim Chowdhury: From Dhaka to Cincinnati: tracing the trajectory of a transnational violence against women campaign (S. 258) | |
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