Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity in direction and character for their state, a struggle complicated by the legacy of colonialism. The contributors to this volume explore the intricate, dynamic relationships that pertain between women's agency and the state-making institutions and armed forces of Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar). They also address the complex roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Theravada Buddhism in these postcolonial dynamics.In particular, the contributors examine religion as a way of understanding how...
Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity in direction and character for their state, a struggle complicated ...
Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity - in direction and character - for their state, a struggle complicated by the legacy of colonialism. The contributors to this volume explore the intricate, dynamic relationships that pertain between women's agency and the state-making institutions and armed forces of Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar). They also address the complex roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Theravada Buddhism in these postcolonial dynamics. In particular, the contributors examine religion as a way of understanding how...
Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity - in direction and character - for their state, a struggle complicated...
One the eve of her twentieth birthday, the author is kidnapped and gang raped. Afterwards, she faces a sheriff who won't take her report and a phyician who tells her to -get over it.- Struggling with undiagnosed P.T.S.D., she fights to build a life.This is the story of the kidnapping and night of torture, and of the author's struggle with the emotional turmoil of its aftermath. It is a journey from terror to a life worth living.
One the eve of her twentieth birthday, the author is kidnapped and gang raped. Afterwards, she faces a sheriff who won't take her report and a phyi...
