Body evidence : intimate violence against South Asian women in America / / [edited by] Shamita Das Dasgupta.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Dasgupta, Shamita Das.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 305 p.

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.