Intimacies of Violence: Reading Transnational Middle-Class Women in Bangladeshi America

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Nadine Shaanta Murshid (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo)

Intimacies of Violence

Reading Transnational Middle-Class Women in Bangladeshi America

Nadine Shaanta Murshid (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo)

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Oxford University Press Inc
26 March 2025

Migration, immigration & emigration; Gender studies, gender groups; Ethnic studies; Social welfare & social services

In Intimacies of Violence, Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produced, perpetuated, and resisted. Transnational Bangladeshi women are individuals who occupy space in both the United States and Bangladesh, living bilocating yet bordered lives.

Murshid forwards four broad arguments. First, a transnational feminist approach documents the ""shock of arrival"" to provide an examination of how social locations and associated status impact the intimate economies in which women experience inequities related to love, sex, and desire. Second, drawing on theories from social work, transnational feminism, Bangladesh studies, and migration studies, the book shows how social norms produced at the familial level serve to link the structural and the intimate. Third, the book illustrates how nationalist narratives about Bangladesh's history of wartime rape inform women's construction of violence. Finally, the institutions of home, immigration, and the criminal legal system are implicated as sites of violence for transnational Bangladeshi women.

As the first book to exclusively examine the private lives of transnational Bangladeshi women in the United States, Intimacies of Violence allows ... academics, policymakers, and practitioners who work with migrant communities and immigration policy to understand the complex ways in which immigrant lives are structured by social systems.

By: Nadine Shaanta Murshid (Associate Professor Associate Professor School of Social Work University at Buffalo)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 167mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 617g
ISBN: 9780197755839
ISBN 10: 0197755836
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part I: Intimacies Chapter 1: Love Chapter 2: Sex Chapter 3: Desire Part II: Kinship Ties Chapter 4: Dialectical Aunties Part III: Nation and Nationalism Chapter 5: Birangona: The Blueprint for How Rape Is Viewed Part IV: Embodying Structural Violence Chapter 6: Home Chapter 7: Immigration Chapter 8: Criminal Legal System Coda

Nadine Shaanta Murshid is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, University at Buffalo. Over the last decade, her work has primarily examined the various ways in which violence is produced, maintained, and experienced in Bangladeshi communities. Her work, critical of the systems of oppression that produce the self-alienated, complex, and contradictory neoliberal subject, forwards an anti-carceral agenda.

Reviews for Intimacies of Violence: Reading Transnational Middle-Class Women in Bangladeshi America

Intimacies of Violence is a significant contribution to feminist scholarship, especially on Bangladeshi middle class Muslims, and South Asian studies, shedding light on a topic often silenced within Bangladeshi communities. This book deserves a wide readership, not only among academics but also among Bangladeshi families, guardians, and community leaders. If we are to address IPV meaningfully, we must first allow victims to speak without fear or stigma-and Murshid's work is a step toward that goal. * Irfan Chowdhury, The Daily Star *