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Indian women in marriage: When the sacred marriage thread becomes a noose.

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dc.contributor.authorNaidu, Uma Maheshvari.
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-13T09:06:41Z
dc.date.available2013-11-13T09:06:41Z
dc.date.created2011
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractViolence against women is a worldwide problem that transcends all boundaries – cultural, geographic, religious, social and economic. However, it is maintained that there are also added particular cultural ‘dynamics’ or constraints inherent in specific cultural groups. This focus attempts to sketch out the features of a category of Indian women who are assumed as being compelled by particular systemic cultural constraints or familial pressures to ‘play the dutiful wife’ at the expense of enduring sustained emotional and physical trauma. While there is extensive, even sensational reporting of violence within Indian families and against Indian wives in (predominantly Indian) tabloids, there is conversely less scholarly attention on this category of women and the dynamics and conflicts within Indian households. This piece focuses a narrow scrutiny on the Indian wife within abusive marriages. It looks at what is referred to as ‘culturally systemic’ violence and a certain commonality of marital discord and abuse experienced by Indian wives who live in extended families, and pays attention to the presence of the mother-in-law within the living arrangement.en
dc.identifier.citationNaidu, Maheshvari. 2011. Indian women in marriage: When the sacred marriage thread becomes a noose. Agenda, 25(1), 84-92.en
dc.identifier.issn1013-0950
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2011.575587en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/9986
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)/UNISA Press.en
dc.subjectIndian women--Abuse of.en
dc.subjectIndian women--South Africa.en
dc.subjectMarried women--South Africa.en
dc.subjectHindu women--Social life and customs.en
dc.subjectWife abuse--South Africa.en
dc.subjectMarital violence--Psychological aspects.en
dc.subject.otherIndian marriage.en
dc.subject.otherFamilial relations.en
dc.titleIndian women in marriage: When the sacred marriage thread becomes a noose.en
dc.typePeer reviewed journal articleen

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