Violence Against Women in Asian Societies
Violence against women is both a violation of human rights and a priority public health issue, and is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialised societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence in Asian societies.
This book addresses the structural and interpersonal violence to which women are subject, 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 sensationalised accounts of so-called cultural practices in favour of nuanced explorations of violence as experienced in Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Bangladesh and India.
Lenore Manderson is a medical anthropologist and social historian, and ARC Federation Fellow at the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society at The University of Melbourne . Her recent books include Global Health Policy, Local Realities (with L. Whiteford, 2000) and Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia (with P.L. Rice, 2002). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia.
Linda Rae Bennett, a medical anthropologist, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society of La Trobe University. Her research interests relate to the interplay of ideology and institutions, sexuality and desire. She was the secretary to the international Consultation on Sexual Violence Against Women held in 2000.
ASIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
Women in Asia Series
Editor: Louise Edwards (Australian National University)
Editorial Board:
Susan Blackburn (Monash University)
John Butcher (Griffith University)
Vera Mackie (Curtin University)
Anne McLaren (Melbourne University)
Mina Roces (University of New South Wales)
Andrea Whittaker (MeIbourne University)
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A World of Difference: Islam and Gender Hierarchy in Turkey by Julie Marcus 1992
Purity and Communal Boundaries: Women and Social Change in a Bangladeshi Village by Santi Rozario 1992
Madonnas and Martyrs : Militarism and Violence in the Philippines by Arme-Marie Hilsdon 1995
Masters and Managers: A Study of Gender Relations in Urban Java by Norma Sullivan 1995
Matriliny and Modernity: Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia by Maila Stivens 1995
Intimate Knowledge: Women and their Health in North-east Thailand by Andrea Whittaker 2000
Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation by Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (eds) 2000
Violence against Women in Asian Societies: Gender Inequali ty and Technologies of Violence by Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (eds) 2003
Women's Employment in Japan : The Experienee of Part-time Workers by Kaye Broadbent 2003
Violence Against Women in Asian Societies
Edited by Lenore Manderson and
Linda Rae Bennett
First published 2003
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Violence against women in Asian societies / edited by Lenore Manderson & Linda Rae Bennett.
p. cm. (ASAA women in Asia series)
Include bibliographic references and index.
ISBN 0-7007-1741-2 (alk. Paper) ISBN 0-7007-1742-0 (pbk. : alk. Paper) 1. WomenCrimes againstAsia. 2. WomenViolence againstAsia. 3. Sex discrimination against womenAsia. I. Manderson, Lenore. II. Bennett, Linda Rae. III. Series.
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Contents
Linda Rae Bennett and Lenore Manderson
Anne-Marie Hilsdon
Nurul Ilmi Idrus and Linda Rae Bennett
Mridula Bandyopadhyay and Mahmuda Rahman Khan
Monique Skidmore
Rebecca Surtees
Geeta Sodhi and Manish Verma
Rebecca Foley
Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
Jill Astbury
Jill Astbury is a psychologist who researches the psychosocial determinants of women's mental health and health behaviours. Her doctoral research identified factors influencing psychological adaptation to pregnancy, birth and the Puerperium and has continued to research the impact of reproductive events, obstetric intervention and reproductive technology on the mental health of mothers, including their risk of postnatal depression. Most recently, her research has focussed on the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage, gender, psychosocial adversity and violence on women's mental health, reproductive health and health behaviours, especially smoking. She is the author of Crazy for You: The making of women's madness (1996) and Women's Mental Health: An evidence based review (2000). In 2001, at the request of the World Health Organization, she prepared a background paper for the World Health Assembly on Gender Disparities in Mental Health. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Committee to develop a Women's Health and Well Being Strategy.
Mridula Bandyopadhyay is a demographer and an anthropologist. She has extensive working experience in maternal and child health projects in rural India, particularly in reproductive health, family planning, and the socio-cultural determinants of health. Her doctoral research identified traditional, cultural and social factors influencing women's health in rural India. She is the author of Women and Health: Tradition and Culture in Rural India (1998). She has recently completed a research project on A Needs Assessment & Baseline Survey on AIDS Related Information & Education Needs of Women Migrant Workers in Hong Kong for the Council for the AIDS Trust Fund, Department of Health and Welfare, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China. She has also worked in comparative public and social policy, education and multi-media projects. In her current position she is working in the area of gender and reproductive health, sexual health, women and HIV/AIDS, research methodology and the socio-cultural determinants of health.
