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Violence against women in South Asian communities : issues for policy and practice / edited by Ravi K. Thiara and Aisha K. Gill ; foreword by Liz Kelly.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010Description: 255 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1843106701
  • 9781843106708
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.82920954 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6250.4.W65 V567635 2010
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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