Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Dasgupta, Shamita Das
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
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245 0 0 |a Body evidence  |h [electronic resource] :  |b intimate violence against South Asian women in America /  |c [edited by] Shamita Das Dasgupta. 
260 |a New Brunswick, N.J. :  |b Rutgers University Press,  |c c2007. 
300 |a xi, 305 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Victims of family violence  |z United States. 
650 0 |a South Asian American women  |x Violence against  |z United States. 
650 0 |a South Asian American women  |x Services for  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Women immigrants  |x Violence against  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Women immigrants  |x Legal status, laws, etc.  |z United States. 
650 0 |a South Asian Americans  |x Social conditions. 
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