Counseling women : kinship against violence in India / Julia Kowalski.
Women's rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women contends that this perspective overlooks the social and cultural contexts in which women understan...
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[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. Neutral Experts: Counseling between the Family and the State
- 2. Adjusting and Explaining: The Multiple Voices of Counseling
- 3. Law's Single Voice: Counseling in the Context of Domestic Violence Legislation
- 4. Careful Speech: Generating Change through Seva
- 5. Labeling Violence versus Ordering Interdependence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments.