TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - "Dear Dr. Kothari ... ": Sexuality, violence against women, and the parallel public sphere in India
JO  - American ethnologist
A1  - Dewey, Susan
SP  - 124
EP  - 139
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
N2  - In India, cultural prohibitions on discussions about sexuality and violence against women have resulted in a parallel public sphere in which individuals make use of popular culture to resolve private dilemmas. In this article, I examine how female discourse regarding two highly publicized cases of violence against women in Mumbai employed the parallel public sphere, a cultural phenomenon that allows individual normalcy to be gauged as part of a broader process by which the silenced learn to use their voices only at certain times and in certain ways.<p /> 
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SN  - 0094-0496
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01104.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -