Equalizing Gender Imbalance in a Globalized World—The Issue of Transnational Abandonment of Women

Shamita Das Gupta ()

Chapter Chapter 10 in Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia, 2024, pp 199-223 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract My involvement with anti-violence against women work began in the early 1970s as I enrolled in a college in the U.S. I had come to the U.S. as a young wife and started school as a young mother in a Midwestern university. My initiation into formal feminism occurred when I joined a consciousness-raising group with other women from the community and fellow students in Ohio. I say ‘formal feminism’ intentionally to distinguish this awareness from the discomfort I felt when, as a young girl growing up in India, I looked around and recognized the restrictions that girded the lives of girls and women, the ‘un-freedoms’ they suffered in silence.

Keywords: Abandonment; Citizenship; Desert/ed; Child custody; Divorce; Domestic violence; Feminism; Global/Globalization; Hague Conference; Immigrant/Émigré; Immigration; Law-Enforcement/Police; Manavi; Marriage with NRI Men; Ministry of Women and Child Development; National Commission for Women; NRI; Patriarchy/Patriarchal; PWDVA-2005; Rehabilitative Support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7538-6_10

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