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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| 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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| Pubblicazione: | Notre Dame, : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xi, 260 p. : ill., maps |
| Disciplina: | 305.48/96920954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Violence against - Political aspects - South Asia |
| Women and war - Sri Lanka | |
| Women and religion - Burma | |
| Altri autori: |
SkidmoreMonique
LawrencePatricia
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| Note generali: | 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. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women and the contested state |
| ISBN: | 0-268-09269-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824500803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building.