num_pages: 212
description: Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion edited by Piyali Bhattacharya is the first anthology to examine the multiple facets of daughterhood in South Asian American families.The voices in this volume reveal how a Good Girl is trained to seamlessly blend professional success with the maintenance and reproduction of her familys cultural heritage. Her gratitude for her immigrant parents sacrifices creates intense pressure to perform and embody the role of the perfect daughter. Yet the demand for such perfection can stifle desire curb curiosity and make it fraught for a Good Girl to construct her own identity in the face of stern parental opinion.Of course this is not always the case. Certain stories in this collection uncover relationships between parents and daughters that are open and supportive while also being exacting. Many of the essays however dig into difficult truths about what it is to be a young woman in a world of overbearing cultural expectation.Good Girls Marry Doctors is filled with honest stories difficult and joyous heartbreaking and hilarious from a diverse array of powerful women. These narratives combine to expose struggles that are too often hidden from the public eye while reminding those going through similar experiences that they are heard and they are not alone. Contributors include: Ankita Rao Ayesha Mattu Fawzia Mirza Hema Sarang-Sieminski Jabeen Akhtar Jyothi Natarajan Leila Khan Madiha Bhatti Mathangi Subramanian Meghna Chandra Natasha Singh Nayomi Munaweera Neelanjana Banerjee Phiroozeh Romer Piyali Bhattacharya Rachna Khatau Rajpreet Heir Roksana Badruddoja Sayantani DasGupta SJ Sindu Sona Charaipotra Surya Kundu Swati Khurana Tanzila Ahmed Tara Dorabji Tarfia Faizullah and Triveni Gandhi.
language: English
title: Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion
publisher: Aunt Lute Books