Violence against women in Asian societies / edited by Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett.

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Other Authors: Manderson, Lenore, Bennett, Linda Rae
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Series:ASAA women in Asia series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: gender inequality and technologies of violence / Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson
  • Violence against Maranao Muslim women in the Philippines / Anne-Marie Hilsdon
  • Presumed consent: marital violence in Bugis society / Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Linda Rae Bennett
  • Loss of face: violence against women in South Asia / Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Mahmuda Rahman Khan
  • Behind bamboo fences: forms of violence against women in Myanmar / Monique Skidmore
  • Rape and sexual transgression in Cambodian society / Rebecca Surtees
  • Sexual coercion amongst adolescents in an urban slum in India / Geeta Sodhi, Manish Verma
  • Violence against women: the challenges for Malaysian women / Rebecca Foley
  • Notes of an out-of-place widow / Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
  • Whose honour, whose shame? Gender-based violence, rights and health / Jill Astbury.