Body Evidence Intimate Violence Against South Asian Women in America 1st Edition by Shamita Das Dasgupta ISBN 0813541271 9780813541273

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ISBN 10: 0813541271

ISBN 13: 9780813541273 

Author: Shamita Das Dasgupta

When South Asians immigrated to the United States in great numbers in the 1970s, they were passionately driven to achieve economic stability and socialize the next generation to retain the traditions of their home culture. During these years, 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, child sexual abuse, 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 violence in intimate spaces . . . within families, communities and trusted relationships in South Asian American communities. Topics include cultural obsession with women’s chastity and virginity; the continued silence surrounding 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 United States courts often confuse and exacerbate the plights of these women.

Table of contents:

1. The Body Chart: Mapping Domestic Violence in South Asian Communities

2. Understanding South Asian Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Violence

3. The Many Faces of Domestic Violence in the South Asian American Muslim Community

4. Minority within a Minority: Reflecting on Marital Violence in the Nepali American Community

5. “Virginity Is Everything”: Sexuality in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence in the South Asian Community

6. The Aftermath of September 11: An Anti-Domestic Violence Perspective

7. The Wounded Body: Emerging Issues in Domestic Violence Work

8. Mental and Emotional Wounds of Domestic Violence in South Asian Women

9. Fragmented Self: Violence and Body Image among South Asian American Women

10. Silences That Prevail When the Perpetrators Are Our Own

11. The Violence That Dares Not Speak Its Name: Invisibility in the Lives of Lesbian and Bisexual South Asian American Women

12. The Trap of Multiculturalism: Battered South Asian Women and Health Care

13. Ahimsa and the Contextual Realities of Woman Abuse in the Jain Community

14. A Communicative Perspective on Assisting Battered Asian Indian Immigrant Women

15. The Body Evidence: Law and South Asian Battered Women

16. Law’s Culture and Cultural Difference

17. Middle Class, Documented, and Helpless: The H-4 Visa Bind

18. Battered South Asian Women in U.S. Courts

19. The Body in Action: Activism and Transnational Anti-Domestic Violence Work

20. Navigating Gender, Immigration, and Domestic Violence: Advocacy with Work Visa Holders

21. Local and Global Undivided: Transnational Exploitation and Violence against South Asian Women

22. From Dhaka to Cincinnati: Tracing the Trajectory of a Transnational Violence against Women Campaign

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