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Title Mixed blessings : laws, religions and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region / edited by Amanda Whiting and Carolyn Evans
Published Boston, Mass. : Martinus Nijhoff, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages)
Series Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ; v. 1
Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ; v. 1. 1871-7829
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Women and religion
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights
Recht
Religion
Frau
Pacific Area
Southeast Asia
Südostasien
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Whiting, Amanda.
Evans, Carolyn (Carolyn Maree)
ISBN 9047409655
9789047409656
1281399272
9781281399274
9786611399276
6611399275