Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia
Subtitle: concept, law and strategy
By: edited by Maznah Mohamad and Saskia E. Wieringa
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brighton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781845195557
Subjects: Family violence; Law and legislation; Families
Description: "This book revisits the issue of Domestic Violence (DV) in Asia by exploring the question of family ambiguity, and interrogating DV's relationship between concept, law and strategy. Comparative experiences in the Asian context enable an examination of the effectiveness of family regulations and laws in diverse national, cultural and religious settings. Key questions relate to the limits and relevance of the human rights discourse in resolving family conflicts; the extent to which power and control in intimate relationships can actually be regulated by a set of inanimate, homogeneous and uniform policies and legislations; and how the state relates to the family as an "ambiguous" unit given state rules of governance that perpetuate unequal gender relations. Many of the difficulties in understanding DV have sprung from the fact that the family unit is ambiguous. When the state intervenes (e.g. reproductive health) the family is treated as a public concern; yet with respect to individual human/multicultural rights, the family is considered a private domain. Complications and contradictions arise with regard to different legislative/religious practices across Asia: for example, the enforcement of Sharia; technocratic imperatives with regard to demographic goals of marriage and reproduction; and state interference of gender imbalances and inequality"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Domestic violence : an introduction to the debates / Saskia Wieringa and Maznah Mohamad; title: Cultures of violence and silence / Amrita Nandy; title: Culture, power and narratives in domestic violence law / Zarizana Abdul Aziz; title: Domestic violence in the harmonious Asian family and the enforcement of heteronormativity in India and Indonesia / Saskia E. Wieringa; title: Domestic violence and migration in the Philippines : transnational sites of struggle and sacrifice / Cheryll Alipio; title: Investigating intimate violence : a problem of law / Narayanan Ganapathy; title: Malaysia's domestic violence law : an epic passage, and the clash of gender, cultural and religious rights / Maznah Mohamad; title: The Indonesian family as a contested site of women's rights : implementation of the domestic violence act / Nursyahbani Katjasungkana; title: Reflections on domestic violence as gender-based violence in European legal developments / Renée G. Römkens.