Violence against women in South Asian communities : issues for policy and practice /

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Imprint:	London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (254 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Violence against -- South Asia. Women -- Violence against -- South Asia -- Prevention. Women -- Government policy -- South Asia. Women -- Government policy. Women -- Violence against. Women -- Violence against -- Prevention. South Asia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11232619

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Other authors / contributors:	Thiara, Ravi K. Gill, Aisha K.
ISBN:	9780857002037 0857002031 9781843106708 1843106701
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	This book is powerful, challenging and inspirational, and is an important contribution to debates on the complex intersections between ethnicity, gender and inequality, as well as on human rights and violence against women.
Other form:	Print version: Violence against women in South Asian communities. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010 9781843106708

Table of Contents:

Understanding violence against South Asian women : what it means for practice / Ravi K. Thiara and Aisha Gill
Charting South Asian women's struggles against gender-based violence / Amrit Wilson
Masculinities and violence against women in South Asian communities : transnational perspectives / Marzia Balzani
Shrinking secular spaces : Asian women at the intersect of race, religion, and gender / Pragna Patel and Hannana Siddiqui
Moving toward a "multiculturalism without culture" : constructing a victim-friendly human rights approach to forced marriage in the UK / Aisha Gill and Trishima Mitra-Kahn
Continuing control : child contact and post-separation violence / Ravi K. Thiara
Shariah councils and the resolution of matrimonial disputes : gender and justice in the "shadow" of the law / Samia Bano
Protection for all? : the failures of the domestic violence rule for (Im)migrant women / Kaveri Sharma and Aisha Gill.

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