Domestic Violence in Asia
Subtitle: Globalization, Gender and Islam in the Maldives
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415673976
Subjects: Family violence; Maldives
Description: "Explores changing patterns of domestic violence in Asia. Based on extensive original research in the Maldives, it argues that forces of globalisation, consumerism, Islamism and democratisation are changing the nature of domestic relations, with shifting ideas surrounding gender and Islam being particularly significant"--