Counseling Women : : Kinship Against Violence in India / / Julia Kowalski.

Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women contends that this perspective overlooks the social and cultural contexts in which women understand and...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1. Neutral Experts: Counseling between the Family and the State
  • 2. Adjusting and Explaining: The Multiple Voices of Counseling
  • 3. Law’s Single Voice: Counseling in the Context of Domestic Violence Legislation
  • 4. Careful Speech: Generating Change through Seva
  • 5. Labeling Violence versus Ordering Interdependence
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments