UID:
almafu_9959239294802883
Format:
1 online resource (209 p.)
ISBN:
1-136-87569-7
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0-7007-1742-0
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1-315-02963-4
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1-136-87562-X
Series Statement:
Women in Asia series
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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gender inequality and technologies of violence /
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Violence against Maranao Muslim women in the Philippines /
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Presumed consent: marital violence in Bugis society /
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Loss of face: violence against women in South Asia /
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Behind bamboo fences: forms of violence against women in Myanmar /
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Rape and sexual transgression in Cambodian society /
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Sexual coercion amongst adolescents in an urban slum in India /
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Violence against women: the challenges for Malaysian women /
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Notes of an out-of-place widow /
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Whose honour, whose shame? Gender-based violence, rights and health /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7007-1741-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-86707-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315029634
