Speaking the Unspeakable - 9780813527932

Speaking the UnspeakableMarital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States\nAuthor(s): Margaret Abraham\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813527932, 978-0813527932\nSynopsis\nOver 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 Abrahams Speaking the Unspeakable is the first book to focus on South Asian womens 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 vulnerabl.