Margaret Abraham

Speaking the Unspeakable

Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past 20 years, much work has focused on domestic violence, yet little attention has been paid to the causes, manifestations, and resolutions to marital violence among ethnic minorities, especially recent immigrants. Margaret Abraham’s Speaking the Unspeakable is the first book to focus on South Asian women’s experiences of domestic violence, defined by the author as physical, sexual, verbal, mental, or economic coercion, power, or control perpetrated on a woman by her spouse or extended kin. Abraham explains how immigration issues, cultural assumptions, and unfamiliarity with American social, legal, economic, and other institutional systems, coupled with stereotyping, make these women especially vulnerable to domestic violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780813527932
• ISBN-10: 0813527937
• Artikelnr.: 21923060

Autorenporträt

Abraham, Margaret

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  
Acknowledgments  
Introduction: Framing the Issues
Marriage and Family
Immigrant Status and Marital Violence
Isolation: Alone in a Foreign Country
Sexual Abuse
Internal and External Barriers: It's Not Only the Abuser
Fighting Back: Abused Women's Strategies of Resistance
Making a Difference: South Asian Women's Organizations in the United States
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Reflections on Our Transformational Politic
Appendix A. Profile of Respondents at Time of Interview      
Appendix B. Notes on the Research Process     
Notes        
References      
Index