Women and the contested state
Subtitle: religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia
By: edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence.
Contributors: Skidmore, Monique.; Lawrence, Patricia.; Program in Conflict, Religion, and Peacebuilding.
Series: Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Notre Dame
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780268041250; 9780268041267
Subjects: Women -- Violence against -- Political aspects -- South Asia -- Congresses; Women and war -- Sri Lanka -- Congresses; Women and religion -- Burma -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contesting traditions : religion and violence in South Asia / Peter van der Veer; title: The citizen as sexed : women, violence, and reproduction / Veena Das; title: The nuclear fetish : violence, affect, and the postcolonial state / Betty Joseph; title: Overcoming the silent archive in Bangladesh : women bearing witness to violence in the 1971 Liberation War / Yasmin Saikia; title: The watch of Tamil women : women's acts in a transitional warscape / Patricia Lawrence; title: Mothers and wives of the disappeared in southern Sri Lanka : fragmented geographies of moral discomfort / Alex Argenti-Pillen; title: The other body and the body politic : contingency and dissonance in narratives of violence / Mangalika de Silva; title: Buddha's mother and the billboard queens : moral oower in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore; title: With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt; title: To marry a man or a spirit? : women, spirit possession cult, and domination in Burma / Bènèdicte Brac de la Perrire.