Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

Ravi K Thiara is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Safety and Well-being at the University of Warwick, UK. Aisha K Gill is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences & Business at Roehampton University, UK.

• Foreword. Professor Liz Kelly. Introduction. Ravi K Thiara, University of Warwick and Aisha K Gill, Roehampton University. Chapter 1. Understanding Violence against South Asian Women: What it Means for Practice. Ravi K Thiara and Aisha K Gill. Chapter 2. Charting South Asian Women's Struggles against Gender-based Violence. Amrit Wilson, University of Huddersfield and Royal Holloway College. Chapter 3. Masculinities and Violence against Women in South Asian Communities: Transnational Perspectives. Marzia Balzani, Roehampton University. Chapter 4. Shrinking Secular Spaces: Asian Women at the Intersect of Race, Religion and Gender. Pragna Patel and Hannana Siddiqui, Southall Black Sisters. Chapter 5. Moving Toward a 'Multiculturalism Without Culture': Constructing a Victim-Friendly Human Rights Approach to Forced Marriage in the UK. Aisha K Gill and Trishima Mitra-Kahn, Roehampton University. Chapter 6. Continuing Control: Child Contact and Post-separation Violence. Ravi K Thiara. Chapter 7. Shariah Councils and the Resolution of Matrimonial Disputes: Gender and Justice in the 'Shadow' of the Law. Samia Bano, University of Reading. Chapter 8. Protection for All? The Failures of the Domestic Violence Rule for (Im)migrant Women. Kaveri Sharma, London Metropolitan University and Aisha K Gill. Chapter 9. Conclusion: Looking to the Future. Aisha K Gill and Ravi K Thiara. List of Contributors. Index

Its sounds a bleak picture, but it is not, because the book is a testimony to the strength, solidarity and persistence of the resistance movement. It is a call for unity, it is a pledge and a promise that these contributor activists and their alliances with others will continue to challenge and contest the dominant narratives which shape and define the perception of South Asian women by the mainstream community in policy, politics and the law and bring justice to South Asian women victims of domestic violence.