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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452280003321

Titolo

Violence against women in Asian societies / / edited by Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-7007-1742-0

1-315-02963-4

1-136-87562-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Women in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

BennettLinda Rae

MandersonLenore

Disciplina

362.88/082/095

Soggetti

Women - Crimes against - Asia

Women - Violence against - Asia

Sex discrimination against women - Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: gender inequality and technologies of violence / Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson -- Violence against Maranao Muslim women in the Philippines / Anne-Marie Hilsdon -- Presumed consent: marital violence in Bugis society / Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Linda Rae Bennett -- Loss of face: violence against women in South Asia / Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Mahmuda Rahman Khan -- Behind bamboo fences: forms of violence against women in Myanmar / Monique Skidmore -- Rape and sexual transgression in Cambodian society / Rebecca Surtees -- Sexual coercion amongst adolescents in an urban slum in India / Geeta Sodhi, Manish Verma -- Violence against women: the challenges for Malaysian women / Rebecca Foley -- Notes of an out-of-place widow / Jacqueline Aquino Siapno -- Whose honour, whose shame? Gender-based violence, rights and health / Jill Astbury.

Sommario/riassunto

Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence in Asian societies. This



book addresses the structural and interpersonal violences to which women are subject, both under conditions of conflict and disruption, and where civil society is relatively ordered. It explores sexual violence and coercion, domestic violence, and violence within the broader community and the state, avoiding sensationa