laws, religions, and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Whiting, Amanda > (ed.)
- Creator
- Evans, Carolyn > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Thio, Li-ann
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2006
- Thesaurus
- religie, mensenrechten, wetgeving, heksen, riten, rooms-katholicisme, islam, boeddhisme, Zuidoost-Azië, Indonesië, bundel
- Description
- 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.