TY - BOOK AU - Goonesekere,Savitri TI - Violence, law, and women's rights in South Asia SN - 0761997962 (cloth) U1 - 342.540878 22 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications KW - Women KW - Crimes against KW - South Asia KW - Abused women KW - Legal status, laws, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-339) and index; Overview : reflections on violence against women and the legal systems of some South Asian countries / Savitri Goonesekere -- Violence against women and the Indian law / Kirti Singh -- Violence against women : the legal systems and institutional responses in Pakistan / Hina Gilani and Emam M. Ahmed -- Sri Lanka : the law's response to women victims of violence / Shyamala Gomez and Mario Gomez ER -