Women and the contested state : religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia / / edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence

• 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
• 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 / Benedicte 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
• Serie: Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building.