TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ayyub,Ruksana
AU  - Bhuyan,Rupaleem
AU  - Choudhury,Prajna
AU  - Choudhury,Prajna Paramita
AU  - Chowdhury,Elora Halim
AU  - Dasgupta,Shamita Das
AU  - Grewal,Mandeep
AU  - Hunjan,Sandeep
AU  - Jain,Shashi
AU  - Jesudason,Sujatha Anbuselvi
AU  - Kallivayalil,Diya
AU  - Poore,Grace
AU  - Puri,Sunita
AU  - Purkayastha,Bandana
AU  - Rajan,V.G.Julie
AU  - Rajan,V.G.Julie
AU  - Ranjeet,Bidya
AU  - Rudrappa,Sharmila
AU  - Shah,Shivali
AU  - Sthanki,Maunica
AU  - Towson,Shelagh
AU  - Venkataramain-Kothari,Anitha
AU  - Venkataramani-Kothari,Anitha
TI  - Body Evidence: Intimate Violence against South Asian Women in America 
SN  - 9780813539812
U1  - 362.82/92208991073 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Family violence
KW  - United States
KW  - South Asian American women
KW  - Services for
KW  - Violence against
KW  - South Asian Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Victims of family violence
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813541273
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813541273
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813541273/original
ER  -