Mixed blessings : : laws, religions and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region / / edited by Amanda Whiting and Carolyn Evans.
The essays in this volume explore some of the diverse and contradictory ways that the lives of women in the Asia-Pacific region are shaped by two powerful regimes - 'religion' and 'law' - and by the interactions between them. They show that for women, laws - customary, colonial,...
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| Superior document: | Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights, v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ;
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 284 p. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Situating the Issues, Framing the Analysis Carolyn Evans and Amanda Whiting
- 2. Sex or Sangha? Non-normative Gender Roles for Women in Thailand Lucinda Peach
- 3.Women and Witchcraft: Positivist, Prelapsarian, and Post-Modern Judicial Interpretations in PNG Jean G. Zorn
- 4. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Women, Religion and Law in Solomon Islands Jennifer Corrin Care
- 5. Women, Religion and the Law in Aotearoa /New Zealand: The Complexity of Accommodating Different Value Systems in Law Margaret Bedggood and Leah Whiu
- 6. The Roman Catholic Church and the Rights of East Timorese Women Susan Harris Rimmer
- 7. Muslim Women's Political Struggle for Marriage Law Reform in Contemporary Indonesia Kathryn Robinson
- 8. Islamisation, Modernity and the Re-positioning of women in Brunei Ann Black
- 9. "She's a Woman but She Acts Very Fast:" Women, Religion and Law in Singapore Li-ann Thio.