BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY MARGARET ABRAHAM

Margaret Abraham is the author of Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States, the first book on domestic violence in the US South Asian community, where she coined the term "SAWO: South Asian Women's Organization." 

Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States (Rutgers University Press 2000) won the American Sociological Association: Section on Asian and Asian America Outstanding Book Award in 2002.

Margaret has also co-edited Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship (Ashgate, 2010) and Special Issue: Making a Difference: Linking Research and Action in Practice, Pedagogy and Policy for Social Justice (Current Sociology, Sage, 2012); and Interrogating Gender, Violence, and the State in National and Transnational Contexts (Guest editors: Evangelia Tastsoglou and Margaret Abraham, Current Sociology, July 2016; 64 (4)).

She has been published in various journals including Gender & Society, Violence Against Women, Social Justice, and Indian Journal of Gender Studies on a wide range of subjects – from domestic violence to citizenship and globalization to sociological pedagogy and practice.

Excerpted editorial reviews (back cover) for Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States:

"This groundbreaking book combines an insightful scholarly analysis with the powerful voices of women. Also important are its presentation of sexual abuse and its emphasis on individual and community resistance and on cultural and legal oppression."
- Jacquelyn Campbell | Coeditor of To Have and Hit: Cultural Perspectives in Wife Battering

"Margaret Abraham breaks through the myth of the 'model minority' and speaks the unspeakable: violence against women in our families. She articulates the complexities of domestic violence in South Asian women’s lives circumscribed by culture, tradition, law, and isolation in a new country. Through it all, we hear women's voices and experiences loud and clear.”
- Shamita Das Dasgupta | Editor of A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America

Speaking the Unspeakable: Independent Book Reviews

• Review in Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 4, No. 3, pp.285-288 by Linda Trinh Võ, June 2001

• Sounds of Silence, Review in Inside Books by Tessa Parsons

• Passion for Researching Issues of Ethnicity, Gender, in India Abroad, by Kala Dwarakanath

• Amazon.com Reviews of Speaking the Unspeakable

• An Interview with Maggie, in Voices of Sakhi by Mary Job, Fall 2000

• Review in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 108. No 3, pp. 713-715 by Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside

• Review in American Ethnologist, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.131-141, 2004 by Madelaine Adelman, Arizona State University

• Review in Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 107-108 by Hoan N. Bui, University of Tennessee

BOOKS

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

“Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues,” in Current Sociology, 64: 517-534, first published on April 18, 2016 (Margaret Abraham and Evangelia Tastsoglou), July 2016

“Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state,” Current Sociology, 64: 568-585, first published on April 13, 2016 (Margaret Abraham and Evangelia Tastsoglou), July 2016

"The Intersections of Protest Suicides, Oppression and Social Justice" in Sociologies in Dialogue,” Volume 1, no. 1, 2015

“Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Linking Research and Action on Domestic Violence,” Sociologists in Action on Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality. SAGE Publications: Thousand Oaks, California, 2015

"Introduction: Making a Difference: Linking Research and Action in Practice, Pedagogy and Policy for Social Justice," Current Sociology, Sage. (Co-authored with Bandana Purkayastha), 2012

"Transforming Place and Belonging through Action Research, Community Practice, and Public Policy: Comparing Responses to NIMBYism," Current Sociology, Sage. (Co-authored with Gregory Maney), 2012

"Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in the United States,” Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2005. (Also reprinted in Marriage and Migration. Editors, Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi, Sage Publication), 2007

“Serving Limited English Proficient (LEP) Battered Women: A National Survey of the Courts' Capacity to Provide Protection Orders,"Conducted by National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, VA. (Co-authored report on NIJ-sponsored project). www.ncsconline.org, 2006

“South Asian Immigrant Women’s HIV/AIDS Related Issues: An Exploratory Study of New York City". (Co-authored with Roopa Chakkappan and Sung Won Park). Report Published by APICHA.“Strategies of Resistance.” 2005. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender and Culture. (Edited by Natalie Sokoloff and Christine Pratt.) Rutgers University Press, 2005

“Addressing Domestic Violence and Challenging the Model Minority Community of South Asians in the United States,” Intersections and Divergences: Contemporary Asian American Communities. (Edited by R. Bonus and L. Vo.) Temple University Press, 2002

"Immigrant Status and Marital Violence," Women and the Politics of Violence. (Editor, Taisha Abraham), New Delhi: Shakti Books."Femicide." 2001. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies, 2002

"Infanticide," Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies, 2001

“Reflections on Doing Research,” Comments in Asian Mode 1999-2000 Issue 2. 2000

“Isolation as a Social Factor in Marital Violence: The South Asian Immigrant Experience,” Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 9(3), 2000

“Sexual Abuse in South Asian Immigrant Marriages,” Violence Against Women, 5(6), 1999

“Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among the South Asian Community in the United States," 1998

“Marital Violence and Alienation among South Asian Immigrant Women in the United States," Indian Journal of Gender Studies 5 (2),1998

“Designs on Alienation,” (Editor, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman). Finland: Sophi Press

"Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Violence: South Asian Women's Organizations in the United States," Gender & Society, 9 (4), 1995

"Ethnicity and Marginality: Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel,” South Asian Bulletin, 1995

"From India to Israel: A Sociological Analysis of Migration Factors Among Indian Jews,” Population Review, 1995

“Marginality and Disintegration of Community Identity Among the Jews of India,” Studies of Jewish Identity (Edited by Nathan Katz), New Delhi, Manohar, 1994

"The Cochin Jews of India: A Socio-Historical Study,” Asian Culture: Tradition and Diaspora. Selected Conference Proceedings, York College, CUNY, 1994

 “Marital Violence in Developing Countries,” Women and Development by NOW, India No.1, 1992.

 “The Normative and the Factual: An Analysis of Emigration Factors of the Jews of India,” Jewish Journal of Sociology, 1991