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Intimacies of violence : reading transnational middle-class women in Bangladeshi America / Nadine Shaanta Murshid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murshid, Nadine Shaanta, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bangladeshis--United States--Social conditions.
- Bangladeshis.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Intimate partner violence--United States.
- Intimate partner violence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- In 'Intimacies of Violence', Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produced, perpetuated, and resisted. Transnational Bangladeshi women are individuals who occupy space in both the United States and Bangladesh, living bilocating yet bordered lives.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Intimacies of Violence
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Intimacies
- 1. Love
- 2. Sex
- 3. Desire
- PART II Kinship Ties
- 4. Dialectical Aunties
- PART III Nation and Nationalism
- 5. Birangona: The Blueprint for How Rape Is Viewed
- PART IV Embodying Structural Violence
- 6. Home
- 7. Immigration
- 8. Criminal Legal System
- Coda
- Glossary
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 2, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197755860
- 0197755860
- 9780197755846
- 0197755844
- OCLC:
- 1454051893
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