Violence against women in Asian societies / edited by Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-187) and index.

Introduction: gender inequality and technologies of violence / Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson -- Violence against Maranao Muslim women in the Philippines / Anne-Marie Hilsdon -- Presumed consent: marital violence in Bugis society / Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Linda Rae Bennett -- Loss of face: violence against women in South Asia / Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Mahmuda Rahman Khan -- Behind bamboo fences: forms of violence against women in Myanmar / Monique Skidmore -- Rape and sexual transgression in Cambodian society / Rebecca Surtees -- Sexual coercion amongst adolescents in an urban slum in India / Geeta Sodhi, Manish Verma -- Violence against women: the challenges for Malaysian women / Rebecca Foley -- Notes of an out-of-place widow / Jacqueline Aquino Siapno -- Whose honour, whose shame? Gender-based violence, rights and health / Jill Astbury