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Title Good girls marry doctors : South Asian American daughters on obedience and rebellion / [editor] Piyali Bhattacharya.

Publication Info. San Francisco, CA : Aunt Lute Books, [2016]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1786657~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  305.4891407 GOO    AVAILABLE
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Description x, 196 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The cost of grief / Tanzila Ahmed -- My mother, the rebel / Jabeen Akhtar -- The fantasy of normative motherhood / Roksana Badruddoja -- The photograph of my parents / Neelanjana Banerjee -- The politics of being political / Piyali Bhattacharya -- Fair game / Madiha Bhatti -- Daughter of mine / Meghna Chandra -- Flipping the script : finding the love of my life while writing the book of my heart / Sona Charaipotra -- Good girls become doctors / Sayantani DasGupta -- Subterfuge : on how to be obedient while rebelling / Tara Dorabji -- Good girls pray to God / Triveni Gandhi -- Someday never comes / Rajpreet Heir -- Affording the perfect family / Leila Khan -- Acting the part / Rachna Khatau -- Becoming a reluctant breadwinner / Swati Khurana -- Modern mythologies / Surya Kundu -- Without shame / Ayesha Mattu -- The day I found out I was a witch / Fawzia Mirza -- "The only dates are the ones you eat" and other laws of an immigrant girlhood / Nayomi Munaweera -- Patti Smith in the dark / Jyothi Natarajan -- What it looks like to grow / Ankita Rao -- Breathe / Phiroozeh Petigara -- Amma / Hema Sarang-Sieminski -- Draupadi walks alone at night / SJ Sindu -- Cut / Natasha Singh -- Operation make my family normal / Mathangi Subramanian.
Subject South Asian American women -- Conduct of life.
South Asian American women -- Family relationships.
South Asian Americans -- Social life and customs.
South Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
Daughters -- United States.
Children of immigrants -- United States.
Families -- United States.
Added Author Bhattacharya, Piyali, editor.
ISBN 9781879960923 paperback
1879960923 paperback
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