Sita's trousseau: Restorative justice, domestic violence, and South Asian culture

Violence Against Women

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 639-665

  Goel, Rashmi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Immigrant women; Restorative justice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPOUSE; STEREOTYPY; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADULT; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOLKLORE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPOUSES; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 17844401764     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801205274522     Document Type: Article

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