ISBN:
9780520088603
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Bewitching Women, Pious Men : Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
DDC:
305.3/0959
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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 intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power.Contributors cut across disciplinary boundaries and draw on fresh fieldwork and textual analysis, including newspaper accounts, radio reports, and feminist writing. Their subjects range widely: the writings of feminist Filipinas
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control; 2 Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict; 3 Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society; 4 Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village; 5 State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia
Description / Table of Contents:
6 State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore7 Alternative Filipina Heroines: Contested Tropes in Leftist Feminisms; 8 Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand; 9 Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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