Laila Ashrafun

Women and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh

Seeking A Way Out of the Cage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780815367765
• ISBN-10: 0815367767
• Artikelnr.: 52494667

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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