Counseling Women

"Kowalski follows women's rights workers in urban north India, called family counselors, as they help women navigate visceral dilemmas about how, and whether, to sustain relationships with kin who harmed or neglected them. Family counseling and other family mediation practices are a fast-growing feature of anti-violence strategies in India, helping women make decisions about their futures in the context of complex, shifting legal and familial systems"--