Women and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: Seeking A Way Out of the Cage

ISBN-13: 9780815367765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 180 str.

Laila Ashrafun

Opis

This book is a study about domestic violence against women in Bangladeshi society. It delineates, in particular, why and how some women become the victims of domestic violence in the changing socio-economic setting of Bangladesh. The author explores the multiple contexts in which domestic violence occurs.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1 Methodological choice, 2 The Girlhood and Marriage: Perceptions and Experiences of Slum Women, 3 Liberating Own Space: In Quest of Self-Identity and Agency in Everyday Life, 4 Women’s Married Life and Domestic Violence in the Slum, 5 Unveiling Domestic Violence from the Privacy of Home, 6 Legal Battles at the Counseling Center: What do the Women Get?, 7 Conclusions

O autorze

Laila Ashrafun is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.