Tensions in Providing Services to South Asian Victims of Wife Abuse in Toronto

Bibliographic Data

ID12435698
AuthorsVijay Agnew (York University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume4
Issue2
Pages153-179
Publication date1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801298004002003
PMID12295439
OpenAlexW2119322561
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited6

South Asian community-based organizations provide services to non-English speaking women from their communities. Because they depend on the state to fund their programs, they have had to modify their agendas and restrain their criticisms of patriarchal society. Community-based groups have to weigh the immediate goals of the women they serve against their long-term feminist goals of reducing violence by men and destabilizing the patriarchal state. Consequently, they give priority to ensuring access to social services for non-English speaking, working-class, immigrant women. But helping women with their problems does not expose the systemic power relations underlying wife abuse and, although some political and social change does occur, it is slow and moderate

Criminology · Domestic violence · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Suicide prevention · Wife · Gender Studies · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine