Women and the Contested State: Religion, Violence, and Agency in South and Southeast Asia

Introduction : religion and women in peace and Conflict studies / Monique Skidmore -- Contesting traditions : religion and violence in South Asia / Peter van der Veer -- The citizen as sexed : women, violence, and reproduction / Veena Das -- The nuclear fetish : violence, affect, and the postcolonial state / Betty Joseph -- Overcoming the silent archive in Bangladesh : women bearing witness to violence in the 1971 Liberation War / Yasmin Saikia -- The watch of Tamil women : women's acts in a transitional warscape / Patricia Lawrence -- Mothers and wives of the disappeared in southern Sri Lanka : fragmented geographies of moral discomfort / Alex Argenti-Pillen -- The other body and the body politic : contingency and dissonance in narratives of violence / Mangalika de Silva -- Buddha's mother and the billboard queens : moral oower in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore -- With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt -- To marry a man or a spirit? : women, spirit possession cult, and domination in Burma / Bènèdicte Brac de la Perrire. Contents Acknowledgments Illustrations Preface Introduction Contesting Traditions Part I Between Subjects and Citizens The Citizen as Sexed The Nuclear Fetish Overcoming the Silent Archive in Bangladesh Part II Resisting Terror The Watch of Tamil Women Mothers and Wives of the Disappeared in Southern Sri Lanka The Other Body and the Body Politic Part III Encounters with the Mysterious Buddha’s Mother and the Billboard Queens With Patience We Can Endure To Marry a Man or a Spirit? Bibliography Contributors Index