Mixed blessings : laws, religions and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region /

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The essays in this volume explore some of the diverse and contradictory ways that the lives of women in the Asia-Pacific region are shaped by two powerful regimes - 'religion' and 'law' - and by the interactions between them. They show that for women, laws - customary, colonial,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Whiting, Amanda, Evans, Carolyn (Carolyn Maree)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, Mass. : Martinus Nijhoff, ©2006.
Colección:Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ; v. 1.
Temas:
Women's rights > Southeast Asia > Congresses.
Women's rights > Pacific Area > Congresses.
Women and religion > Southeast Asia > Congresses.
Women and religion > Pacific Area > Congresses.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southeast Asia > Congresses.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Pacific Area > Congresses.
Femmes > Droits > Asie du Sud-Est > Congrès.
Femmes > Droits > Pacifique, Région du > Congrès.
Femmes et religion > Asie du Sud-Est > Congrès.
Femmes et religion > Pacifique, Région du > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Women and religion
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights
Recht
Religion
Frau
Pacific Area
Southeast Asia
Südostasien
Computer network resources.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Situating the issues, framing the analysis / Carolyn Evans and Amanda Whiting
  • Ch. 2. Sex or Sangha? : non-normative gender roles for women in Thai law and religion / Lucinda Peach
  • Ch. 3. Women and witchcraft : positivist, prelapsarian, and post-modern judicial interpretations in PNG / Jean G. Zorn
  • Ch. 4. Between a rock and a hard place : women, religion, and law in Solomon islands / Jennifer Corrin Care
  • Ch. 5. Women, religion, and the law in Aotearoa/New Zealand : the complexity of accommodating different value systems in law / Margaret Bedggood and Leah Whiu
  • Ch. 6. The Roman Catholic Church and the rights of East Timorese women / Susan Harris Rimmer.

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