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1. Women, Islam and Modernity

   Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia

   By Linda Rae Bennett

   In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original...

   Published June 12th 2007 by Routledge
2. Violence Against Women in Asian Societies

   Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence

   Edited by Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence in Asian societies. This book addresses the...

   Published February 12th 2003 by Routledge