Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia : concept, law and process
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Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia : concept, law and process
(Sussex library of Asian studies)
Sussex Academic Press, 2013
- : alk. paper
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
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This book revisits the issue of Domestic Violence (DV) in Asia by exploring the question of family ambiguity, and interrogating DV's 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. Many of the difficulties in understanding DV have sprung from the fact that the family unit is ambiguous. When the state intervenes (e.g. reproductive health) the family is treated as a public concern; yet with respect to individual human/multicultural rights, the family is considered a private domain. Complications and contradictions arise with regard to different legislative/religious practices across Asia: for example, the enforcement of Sharia; technocratic imperatives with regard to demographic goals of marriage and reproduction; and state interference of gender imbalances and inequality. The politics and culture around DV is thus a mirror of modern-day Family-State collusion, which sustains rather than curtails discrimination based on sexuality and gender. This book views gender inequality for instance in relation to heteronormativity as the fundamental basis of intimate violence, rather than violence as a generic and neutral phenomenon, requiring generic solutions. It offers news theoretical insights to the conceptualisation of the family, culture and law with respect to DV. And it provides reasoned new perspectives on the effectiveness/inadequacy of present policies, laws and enforcement strategies against domestic violence in Asia.
Table of Contents
- The Essays
- Apparatus
- Translations into English
- Style, notes, & chronology
- Using the Works Cited
- A Biography of Laura Esquivel
- An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism
- Like Water for Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate: The novels early critical reception
- Like Water for Chocolate: The novel & the critics
- Like Water for Chocolate: The film & the critics
- The Law of Love
- Swift as Desire
- Malinche: A Novel
- Future directions in Esquivel criticism
- Laura Esquivels Mexican Chocolate
- El chocolate mexicano de Laura Esquivel
- Crossing Gender Borders: Subversion of Cinematic Melodrama in Like Water for Chocolate
- Unmasked Men: Sex Roles in Like Water for Chocolate
- The Absence of God & the Presence of Ancestors in Laura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolate
- Gendered Spaces, Gendered Knowledge: A Cultural Geography of Kitchenspace in Central Mexico
- Transformation, Code, & Mimesis: Healing the Family in Like Water for Chocolate
- Cultural Identity & the Cosmos: Laura Esquivels Predictions for a New Millennium in The Law of Love
- Laura Esquivels Quantum Leap in The Law of Love
- The Two Mexicos of Swift as Desire
- Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico
- Esquivels Malinalli: Refusing the Last Word on La Malinche
- Esquivels Fiction in the Context of Latin American Womens Writing
- Glossary of Spanish & Nahuatl Words & Phrases
- Index.
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