TY - BOOK AU - Skidmore,Monique AU - Lawrence,Patricia AU - Skidmore,Monique AU - Veer,Peter van der AU - Das,Veena AU - Joseph,Betty AU - Saikia,Yasmin AU - Lawrence,Patricia AU - Argenti-Pillen,Alexandra AU - Silva,Mangalika de TI - Women and the Contested State: Religion, Violence, and Agency in South and Southeast Asia T2 - From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies / Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding SN - 9780268092696 AV - HQ1236.5.S66 -- W66 2007eb U1 - 305.48/96920954 PY - 2007/// CY - Notre Dame PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Women -- Violence against -- Political aspects -- South Asia -- Congresses KW - Women and war -- Sri Lanka -- Congresses KW - Women and religion -- Burma -- Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3440978 ER -