Women and the Contested State : Religion, Violence, and Agency in South and Southeast Asia.
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TextSeries: From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies / Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and PeacebuildingPublisher: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780268092696
- 305.48/96920954
- HQ1236.5.S66 -- W66 2007eb
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contesting Traditions -- Part I Between Subjects and Citizens -- The Citizen as Sexed -- The Nuclear Fetish -- Overcoming the Silent Archive in Bangladesh -- Part II Resisting Terror -- The Watch of Tamil Women -- Mothers and Wives of the Disappeared in Southern Sri Lanka -- The Other Body and the Body Politic -- Part III Encounters with the Mysterious -- Buddha's Mother and the Billboard Queens -- With Patience We Can Endure -- To Marry a Man or a Spirit? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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