Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)
First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women’s lives and struggles in Britain. Through discussions, interviews and intimate one-to-one conversations with South Asian women, in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English, it explored family relationships, the violence of immigration policies, deeply colonial mental health services, militancy at work and also friendship and love. The seventies was a time of some iconic anti-racist and working-class struggles. They are presented here from the point of view of the women who participated in and led them. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter titled 'In conversation with Finding a Voice: 40 years on' in which younger South Asian women write about their own lives and struggles weaving them around those portrayed in the book.

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Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)
First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women’s lives and struggles in Britain. Through discussions, interviews and intimate one-to-one conversations with South Asian women, in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English, it explored family relationships, the violence of immigration policies, deeply colonial mental health services, militancy at work and also friendship and love. The seventies was a time of some iconic anti-racist and working-class struggles. They are presented here from the point of view of the women who participated in and led them. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter titled 'In conversation with Finding a Voice: 40 years on' in which younger South Asian women write about their own lives and struggles weaving them around those portrayed in the book.

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Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)

Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)

by Amrit Wilson
Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)

Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)

by Amrit Wilson

Paperback(2nd Original Publication with New Preface, Introudction and Additional Chapter, and Photos ed.)

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Overview

First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women’s lives and struggles in Britain. Through discussions, interviews and intimate one-to-one conversations with South Asian women, in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English, it explored family relationships, the violence of immigration policies, deeply colonial mental health services, militancy at work and also friendship and love. The seventies was a time of some iconic anti-racist and working-class struggles. They are presented here from the point of view of the women who participated in and led them. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter titled 'In conversation with Finding a Voice: 40 years on' in which younger South Asian women write about their own lives and struggles weaving them around those portrayed in the book.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781988832012
Publisher: Daraja Press
Publication date: 01/10/2018
Edition description: 2nd Original Publication with New Preface, Introudction and Additional Chapter, and Photos ed.
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Amrit Wilson is a writer and activist on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics. She is a founder member of South Asia Solidarity Group and the Freedom Without Fear Platform, and board member of Imkaan, a Black, South Asian and minority ethnic women's organisation dedicated to combating violence against women in Britain. She was a founder member of Awaz and an active member of OWAAD.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Meena Kandasamy

Reclaiming our collective past as an act of resistance, Amrit Wilson

Acknowledgements

Areas from which South Asian immigrants came to Britain


  1. The Prisoner
  2. Introduction to the first edition ‘Women hold up half the sky’
  3. Isolation ‘I have a burning fever—feel me, sister, feel me’
  4. The Family ‘A part of myself ... which gives me so much

    pain’
  5. Work Outside the Home ‘Next time I won’t cry, I’ll make you cry’
  6. Immigration
  7. School Life ‘Don’t you understand English or are you just stupid?’
  8. Adolescence and Marriage ‘Izzat is easily hurt’
  9. Sisters in Struggle
  10. Reflections


11. In conversation with Finding a Voice: 40 years on

Some moments to remember (Photos)

Index

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