Dowery Deaths
Date Submitted: 10/17/2003 13:42:00
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 6 pages (1518 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 6 pages (1518 words)
Silenced by their culture large populations of women in India tolerate abuse and subsequent death because they have provided insufficient dowry. In a culture that is male dominated women are raised to be servants to their husbands often arranged to marry a man that they have never met. Women that are beaten or just unhappy must suppress their feelings to keep their husbands blissful or face shame and be turned away by their own families. …
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