Citation

Neely CL. Violence Against Women 2008; 14(4): 496-501.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801208315107

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Reviews the books, Indian feminisms: Law, patriarchies, and violence in India by G. Gangoli (2007) and Body evidence: Intimate violence against South Asian women in America by S. das Dasgupta (2007). In the first book, the author both informs and enlightens readers about multiple feminist movements in India--a strongly patriarchal society with a long history of violent oppression of women--and the possible negative impact of legislative efforts designed to protect the rights of women. He illustrates the evolution of the movement as occurring simultaneously with the 1920s women's movement in the United States, but being separate and largely uninfluenced by Westernized feminist movements. The second book, describes intimate violence against women of South Asian descent who have migrated to the United States. In the reviewer's opinion, the essays are well written, informative, and provocative, and as a whole they bring to light the deleterious effects of violence suffered by women in the South Asian community. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)