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UNINA9910458718903321 |
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Titolo |
Women and the contested state [[electronic resource] ] : religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia / / edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence |
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Notre Dame, : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SkidmoreMonique |
LawrencePatricia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Violence against - Political aspects - South Asia |
Women and war - Sri Lanka |
Women and religion - Burma |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on presentations at a conference in 2003 of the Program in Conflict, Religion, and Peacebuilding at the Joan. B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contesting traditions : religion and violence in South Asia / Peter van der Veer -- The citizen as sexed : women, violence, and reproduction / Veena Das -- The nuclear fetish : violence, affect, and the postcolonial state / Betty Joseph -- Overcoming the silent archive in Bangladesh : women bearing witness to violence in the 1971 Liberation War / Yasmin Saikia -- The watch of Tamil women : women's acts in a transitional warscape / Patricia Lawrence -- Mothers and wives of the disappeared in southern Sri Lanka : fragmented geographies of moral discomfort / Alex Argenti-Pillen -- The other body and the body politic : contingency and dissonance in narratives of violence / Mangalika de Silva -- Buddha's mother and the billboard queens : moral oower in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore -- With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt -- To marry a man or a spirit? : women, spirit possession cult, and domination in Burma / Bènèdicte Brac de la Perrire. |
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