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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace buildingPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.Description: xi, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0268041253 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0268041261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780268041250 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780268041267 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48 22 Sk32w
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.S66 W66 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 305.48 Sk32w (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000858651

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 (p. 229-247) and index.

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.

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