Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.

Details

Additional Authors

• Skidmore, Monique.
• Lawrence, Patricia.
• Program in Conflict, Religion, and Peacebuilding.

Description

1 online resource (xi, 260 p.) : ill., maps.

Series Statement

Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding

Uniform Title

Women and the contested state (Online)

Subject

• Women > Violence against > Political aspects > South Asia > Congresses
• Women and war > Sri Lanka > Congresses
• Women and religion > Burma > Congresses

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 (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2007020100

OCLC

ssj0000488482

Title

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

Imprint

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.

Series

Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Skidmore, Monique.

Lawrence, Patricia.

Program in Conflict, Religion, and Peacebuilding.