Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities
eBook - ePub

Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

Issues for Policy and Practice

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

Issues for Policy and Practice

About this book

While forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.

This book explores the key theoretical and empirical issues involved in gendered violence, ethnicity and South Asian communities. The editors draw together leading researchers and practitioners to provide a critical reflection of contemporary debates and consider how these reflections can inform policy, research and practice. The contributors consider the primacy of religion and culture, and how South Asian women face multiple and intersecting forms of violence. Future directions for facilitating improved services for survivors of violence against women from different racial and ethnic backgrounds are also proposed.

Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities will have widespread relevance for professional academics, researchers, students, policy makers, practitioners and anyone concerned with gendered violence within South Asian communities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Other Books
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Understanding Violence against South Asian Women: What It Means for Practice
  11. 2. Charting South Asian Women’s Struggles against Gender-based Violence
  12. 3. Masculinities and Violence against Women in South Asian Communities: Transnational Perspectives
  13. 4. Shrinking Secular Spaces: Asian Women at the Intersect of Race, Religion and Gender
  14. 5. Moving toward a ‘Multiculturalism without Culture’: Constructing a Victim-Friendly Human Rights Approach to Forced Marriage in the UK
  15. 6. Continuing Control: Child Contact and Post-separation Violence
  16. 7. Shariah Councils and the Resolution of Matrimonial Disputes: Gender and Justice in the ‘Shadow’ of the Law 182
  17. 8. Protection for All? The Failures of the Domestic Violence Rule for (Im)migrant Women
  18. Conclusion: Looking to the Future
  19. List Of Contributors
  20. Subject Index
  21. Author Index