Women and the contested state : religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia / / edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence.
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| Superior document: | Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 260 p. :; ill., maps. |
| Notes: | 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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Table of 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 / Benedicte Brac de la Perrire.