Family Ambiguity and Domestic Violence in Asia: Concept, Law and Process (The Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845195558 ISBN 13: 9781845195557

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Domestic violence in Asia is explored in this analysis through questions of family ambiguity and the relationship between concept, law, and strategy. Comparative experiences in the Asian context enable an examination of the effectiveness of family regulations and laws in diverse national, cultural, and religious settings. Key questions relate to the limits and relevance of the human rights discourse in resolving family conflicts; the extent to which power and control in intimate relationships can actually be regulated by a set of inanimate, homogeneous, and uniform policies and legislations; and how the state relates to the family as an ambiguous unit given state rules of governance that perpetuate unequal gender relations. Carefully considering the many components of domestic violence—such as state intervention versus the private domain and differences in legislation across Asia—the book offers new theoretical insights to the conceptualization of the family, culture, and law, and provides reasoned new perspectives on the effectiveness or inadequacy of present policies and enforcement strategies against domestic violence in Asia.

About this title

About the Author:

Maznah Mohamad is a visiting senior fellow at National University of Singapore's Southeast Asian Studies Program and is a former visiting chair at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the coauthor of Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia and the coeditor of Risking Malaysia: Culture, Politics and Identity. Saskia E. Wieringa is an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam, the author of Sexual Politics in Indonesia, and the coeditor of The Future of Asian Feminisms, The Sexual History of the Global South, and Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1845195558
• ISBN 13: 9781845195557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Mohamad Maznah, Wieringa Saskia E