Out of the shadows
Subtitle: woman abuse in ethnic, immigrant, and Aboriginal communities
By: edited by Josephine Fong
Publisher: Women's Press; Women's Press of Canada
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780889614673
Subjects: Wife abuse; Cross-cultural studies; Minority women; Abuse of; Women immigrants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 288-322.
Table of contents: title: Part I:; title: Theories, campaigns, practice, and policy --; title: Explaining the abuse of women: an examination of conventional and dominant theoretical perspectives  -- Josephine Fong; title: Opportunity to publicize the private: public education campaigns and domestic violence in Ontatio  -- Samantha Majic; title: Women are still unsafe: cracks in best practice and mandatory arrest policies  -- Josephine Fong -- Part II:; title: Experiences of activists and helping professionals --; title: Challenges, connections, and creativity: anti-violence work with racialized women  -- Cyndy Baskin; title: Beyond cultural stereotypes: Chinese Canadian helping professionals' perspectives on woman abuse within the Chinese-Canadian community in Toronto  -- Josephine Fong; title: Experiences of front-line shelter workers in providing services to immigrant women impacted by family violence  -- Angie Rupra; title: Overview of domestic violence in the South Asia community in Canada: prevalence, issues, and recommendations  -- Ritu Chokshi, Sabra Desai, and Andalee Adamali -- Part III:; title: Lived experiences of women --; title: Changes in gender relations as a risk factor for marital conflict and intimate partner violence: a study of Ethiopian immigrant couples in Canada  -- Ilene Hayman ... [et al.]; title: Chinese immigrant women confronting male violence in their lives  -- Josephine Fong; title: Praying for divorce: the abuse of Jewish women through Jewish divorce law  -- Lisa Rosenberg; title: Violence against women: Nigerian-Canadian women's experiences  -- Ngozi L. Nwosu; title: Perceptions of intimate partner violence and determinants of women's responses to it: findings from a study in Sri Lankan Tamil community in Toronto -- Sepali Guruge.