TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whiting,Amanda
AU  - Evans,Carolyn
TI  - Mixed blessings: laws, religions and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region 
T2  - Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights
SN  - 9047409655
AV  - HQ1236.5.A785 M59 2006eb
U1  - 305.420959 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston, Mass.
PB  - Martinus Nijhoff
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Pacific Area
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - Women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Droits
KW  - Asie du Sud-Est
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Pacifique, Région du
KW  - Femmes et religion
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Recht
KW  - gnd
KW  - Religion
KW  - Frau
KW  - Südostasien
KW  - Computer network resources
KW  - proceedings (reports)
KW  - aat
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Actes de congrès
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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, post-independence and international - and religions - indigenous or introduced, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Confucianism - have been a 'mixed blessing'. These diverse legal systems and religious doctrines and institutions have variously denied women authority and the capacity to participate fully in the public organization of social, political and religious life; they have furthermore constructed gender and familial relations in ways that subordinate women. Yet they have also offered promises of women's empowerment, and provided rules and procedures, norms, values, and interpretations of sacred traditions to deliver those empancipatory promises. Each chapter is devoted to a single state; first, the history and current framework of the national legal system is introduced; then the place of religion in the state is explained; and finally, by means of precise and detailed case studies or examples, each author explores how these sometimes competing, sometimes colluding regimes constructed women and how women interpreted this positioning and sought to resituate themselves
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