Body evidence : intimate violence against South Asian women in America

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Label

Body evidence : intimate violence against South Asian women in America

Title remainder

intimate violence against South Asian women in America

Statement of responsibility

[edited by] Shamita Das Dasgupta

Contributor

• Dasgupta, Shamita Das
• Dasgupta, Shamita Das

Editor

• Dasgupta, Shamita Das
• Dasgupta, Shamita Das

Subject

• Family violence -- United States
• South Asian American women -- Services for -- United States
• South Asian American women -- Violence against -- United States
• South Asian Americans -- Social conditions
• Victims of family violence -- United States
• Women immigrants -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
• Women immigrants -- Violence against -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

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 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 family-based child sexual abuse and 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 the U.S. courts often confuse and exacerbate the plights of these women

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

362.82/92208991073

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6626.2

LC item number

.B63 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography