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Women and the contested state : religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia
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- Creator
- edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0268041261, 0268041253, 9780268092696, 9780268041267, 9780268041250, 0268092699
- OCLC
- ocn128237959, ocn676292108, ocn760004874, ocn929155703
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- Introduction : religion and women in peace and conflict studies / Monique Skidmore -- 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 / Alexandra 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 power in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore -- With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt -- To marry a man or a spirit? : women, the spirit possession cult, and domination in Burma / Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière