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Acid attacks against women and girls have captured the attention of the global media, with several high-profile reports ranging from the BBC to__The Oprah Winfrey Show__. In Bangladesh, reasons for the attacks include women's rejection of sexual advances from men, refusal of marriage proposals, family or land disputes, and unmet dowry demands. The consequences are multiple: permanent marks on the body, disfiguration, and potential blindness. In__Transnationalism Reversed__, Elora Halim Chowdhury explores the complicated terrain of women's transnational antiviolence organizing by focusing on the work done in Bangladesh around acid attacks--and the ways in which the state, international agencies, local expatriates, US media, Bangladeshi immigrants in the United States, survivor-activists, and local women's organizations engage the pragmatics and the transnational rhetoric of empowerment, rescue, and rehabilitation. Grounded in careful ethnographic work, oral history, and theoretical and filmic analysis,__Transnationalism Reversed__makes a significant contribution to conversations around gendered violence, transnational feminist praxis, and the politics of organizing--particularly aro

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Author

Elora Halim Chowdhury

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438437538

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Political Science