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Violence Against Women in Asian Societies : Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence, PDF eBook

Violence Against Women in Asian Societies : Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence PDF

Edited by Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson

Part of the ASAA Women in Asia Series series

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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 sensationalised accounts of so-called cultural' practices in favour of nuanced explorations of violences as experienced in Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and India.

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