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This book testifies to a multiplicity of struggles, invididual and collective, through which South Asian women, across divisions of class, community, age and religion, are seeking to take control of their lives. It looks at the role of the British state, of relentless pressures of the market, and of the politics of South Asia on shaping gender relations over the last thirty years; and discusses how South Asian masculinities have been reconfigured by multicultural polices and by politicised religion. It explores the interaction of institutionalised racism and South Asian Patriarchy in the context of immigration policy, state intervention such as Forced Mariage Initiative, and psychiatry. About Author : Amrit Wilson is wirter and activist on issues of gender and race in Britian and South Asian politics. Her books include Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain which won the Martin Luther King award. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfied. Contents : Acknowledgements Introduction The New 'Good Woman': Reconstructing Patriarchal A Thing of Beauty and a Boy Forever-Cahnging Masculinities 'Mercy and Wisdom of a Government'? Race, Culture and Immigration Control Making a Spectacle of Oneself-South Asian Weddings in Britian Psychiatry, Violence and Mental Distress Contesting (mis) Representations Still Fighting for Justice-Low-paid Workers in a Global Market Dreams, Questions and Struggles-Reflections on a Movement Notes References Index