Bewitching women, pious men : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia /
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersect...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1995.
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| ISBN: | 9780520915343 0520915348 0585131422 9780585131429 9780520088610 0520088611 9780520088603 0520088603 128338213X 9781283382137 9786613382139 6613382132 |
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Table of Contents:
- Why women rule the roost : rethinking Javanese ideologies of gender and self-control / Suzanne A. Brenner
- Narrating herself : power and gender in a Minangkabau woman's tale of conflict / Jennifer Krier
- Neither reasonable nor responsible : contrasting representations of masculinity in a Malay society / Michael G. Peletz
- Senior women, model mothers, and dutiful wives : managing gender contradictions in a Minangkabau village / Evelyn Blackwood
- State versus Islam : Malay families, women's bodies, and the body politic in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong
- State fatherhood : the politics of nationalism, sexuality, and race in Singapore / Geraldine Heng and Janadas Devan
- Alternative Filipina heroines : contested tropes in leftist feminisms / Jacqueline Siapno
- Attack of the widow ghosts : gender, death, and modernity in Northeast Thailand / Mary Beth Mills
- Narratives of masculinity and transnational migration : Filipino workers in the Middle East / Jane A. Margold.