TY - BOOK AU - Skidmore,Monique AU - Lawrence,Patricia ED - Program in Conflict, Religion, and Peacebuilding. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Women and the contested state: religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia T2 - Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding AV - HQ1236.5.S66 W66 2007eb U1 - 305.48/96920954 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Notre Dame PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Women KW - Violence against KW - Political aspects KW - South Asia KW - Congresses KW - Women and war KW - Sri Lanka KW - Women and religion KW - Burma KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Contesting traditions : religion and violence in South Asia / Peter van der Veer -- The citizen as sexed : women, violence, and reproduction / Veena Das -- The nuclear fetish : violence, affect, and the postcolonial state / Betty Joseph -- Overcoming the silent archive in Bangladesh : women bearing witness to violence in the 1971 Liberation War / Yasmin Saikia -- The watch of Tamil women : women's acts in a transitional warscape / Patricia Lawrence -- Mothers and wives of the disappeared in southern Sri Lanka : fragmented geographies of moral discomfort / Alex Argenti-Pillen -- The other body and the body politic : contingency and dissonance in narratives of violence / Mangalika de Silva -- Buddha's mother and the billboard queens : moral oower in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore -- With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt -- To marry a man or a spirit? : women, spirit possession cult, and domination in Burma / Bènèdicte Brac de la Perrire; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10423302 ER -