Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

Show other versions (1)
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Dasgupta, Shamita Das
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items