Good girls marry doctors
Subtitle: South Asian American daughters on obedience and rebellion
By: [editor] Piyali Bhattacharya
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781879960923
Subjects: Social life and customs; South Asian Americans; Conduct of life; Children of immigrants; South Asian American women; Social conditions; Family relationships; Families; Daughters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The cost of grief / Tanzila Ahmed; title: My mother, the rebel / Jabeen Akhtar; title: The fantasy of normative motherhood / Roksana Badruddoja; title: The photograph of my parents / Neelanjana Banerjee; title: The politics of being political / Piyali Bhattacharya; title: Fair game / Madiha Bhatti; title: Daughter of mine / Meghna Chandra; title: Flipping the script : finding the love of my life while writing the book of my heart / Sona Charaipotra; title: Good girls become doctors / Sayantani DasGupta; title: Subterfuge : on how to be obedient while rebelling / Tara Dorabji; title: Good girls pray to God / Triveni Gandhi; title: Someday never comes / Rajpreet Heir; title: Affording the perfect family / Leila Khan; title: Acting the part / Rachna Khatau; title: Becoming a reluctant breadwinner / Swati Khurana; title: Modern mythologies / Surya Kundu; title: Without shame / Ayesha Mattu; title: The day I found out I was a witch / Fawzia Mirza; title: "The only dates are the ones you eat" and other laws of an immigrant girlhood / Nayomi Munaweera; title: Patti Smith in the dark / Jyothi Natarajan; title: What it looks like to grow / Ankita Rao; title: Breathe / Phiroozeh Petigara; title: Amma / Hema Sarang-Sieminski; title: Draupadi walks alone at night / SJ Sindu; title: Cut / Natasha Singh; title: Operation make my family normal / Mathangi Subramanian.