Women and the Contested State : Religion, Violence, and Agency in South and Southeast Asia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies / Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding .
- From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies / Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding .
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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Women -- Violence against -- Political aspects -- South Asia -- Congresses. Women and war -- Sri Lanka -- Congresses. Women and religion -- Burma -- Congresses.