ISBN:
0268041253
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0268041261
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9780268041250
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9780268041267
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 260 p)
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ill., maps
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
Series Statement:
From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies / Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and the Contested State : Religion, Violence, and Agency in South and Southeast Asia
DDC:
305.48/96920954
Keywords:
Women and war Congresses
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Women and religion Congresses
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Women Congresses Violence against
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Political aspects
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Women ; Violence against ; Political aspects ; South Asia ; Congresses
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Women and religion ; Burma ; Congresses
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Women and war ; Sri Lanka ; Congresses
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contributors""""Index""
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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