Women and the contested state religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence.
| Other author | Skidmore, Monique. |
| Other author | Lawrence, Patricia. |
| Other author | Program in Conflict, Religion, and Peacebuilding. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, |
| Description | xi, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007020100 |
| ISBN | 9780268041250 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0268041253 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780268041267 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0268041261 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |