Daughters of Durga: Dowries, Gender Violence and Family in Australia

An incisive investigation of domestic violence in South Asian communities, and the resilience of women in the face of adversity. In the early 2010s a spate of domestic violence-related murders in the Victorian Indian community compelled psychiatrist Manjula Datta O'Connor to investigate the causes of patriarchal abuse in South Asian families. As a practitioner with many decades experience in the field, Datta O'Connor questioned whether a better understanding of history and culture could hel...