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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)


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About the Book

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.

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. She is author, amongst other books, of Dreams Questions Struggles--South Asian women in Britain (Pluto Press 2006) and The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean revolution (Africa World Press 1991). The first edition of Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britainwon the the Martin Luther King Jr Award. Also by Amrit Wilson, and published by Daraja Press, Tishio La Ukombozi: Ubeberu na Mapinduzi Zanzibar.

Review :
'This book is a wonderful, important and necessary reminder of all the black feminist work behind us and all that is left to do.' --Sara Ahmed, feminist writer and independent scholar, and author of Living a Feminist Life Finding a Voice acquires a new significance in this neoliberal era...an indispensable archive as well as a narrative of a past that is not past but reactivated and recast...' --Kumkum Sangari, William F.Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 'A ground-breaking book, as relevant today as it was in the seventies - and evidence, if ever such were needed, that the struggles of Asian, African and Caribbean women remain inextricably linked.' --Stella Dadzie, founder member of OWAAD and author of Heart of the Race 'Finding a Voice... was affirmation that our lives mattered, that our experiences with all their cultural complexities, mattered.' --Meera Syal, British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. 'This new edition comes at a time...when we are experiencing the growth of the surveillance state and when our narratives are being co-opted and used against us. Finding a Voice not only welcome, it is necessary.' -- Marai Larasi, Director, Imkaan; Co-Chair of UK's End Violence Against Women Coalition.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781988832012
  • Publisher: Daraja Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Daraja Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1030 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1988832012
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)
  • Width: 152 mm


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