Violence against women in Asian societies /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Women in Asia series ASAA women in Asia series.
Subject:	Women -- Crimes against -- Asia. Women -- Violence against -- Asia. Sex discrimination against women -- Asia. Sex discrimination against women. Women -- Crimes against. Women -- Violence against. Asia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11303757

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Other authors / contributors:	Manderson, Lenore. Bennett, Linda Rae.
ISBN:	9781136875625 113687562X 1299867073 9781299867079 9781315029634 1315029634 0700717412 9780700717415 0700717420 9780700717422 9781136875694 1136875697 9781136875762 113687576X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence in Asian societies. This book addresses the structural and interpersonal violences to which women are subject, both under conditions of conflict and disruption, and where civil society is relatively ordered. It explores sexual violence and coercion, domestic violence, and violence within the broader community and the state, avoiding sensationa.
Other form:	Print version: Violence against women in Asian societies 0700717412
Standard no.:	10.4324/9781315029634

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.

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