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.
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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