May 7, 2009 by OAA
Margaret Abraham is a Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University and renowned author of Speaking the Unspeakable (Rutgers University Press), the first book to focus on South Asian women’s experiences of domestic violence. In this book, Dr. Abraham explains how cultural assumptions and structural barriers such as unfamiliarity with the American legal and economic systems make immigrant women especially vulnerable to abuse. Professor Abraham has served on the Board of Sakhi for South Asian Women and has worked with numerous other South Asian and national anti-violence agencies. Out Against Abuse was honored to interview her and talk about domestic violence and teen dating violence.
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June 5, 2008 by OAA
Dr. Elora Halim Chowdhury is an Assitant Professer of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachussets. Her teaching and research interests include critical development studies, third world/transnational feminisms, globalization and women’s organizing in Bangladesh. She has worked with various philanthropic/development organizations in Bangladesh and the U.S. The title of her current book project is Transnationalism Reversed: Engaging Development, NGO Politics and Women’s Organizing in Bangladesh.
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March 17, 2008 by OAA
Shamita Das Dasgupta is a cofounder of Manavi, Inc, one of the first domestic violence organizations in North America which focuses on gender abuse in the South Asian community. She has published numerous articles in the women’s empowerment field and written many books regarding domestic violence issues, including The Demon Slayers and Other Stories: Bengali Folktales (1995, Interlink Books), A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America (1998, Rutgers University Press), and Body Evidence: Intimate Violence against South Asian Women in America (2007, Rutgers University Press). She is currently an adjunct assistant professor of clinical law at the NYU Law School.
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