ISBN:
9780415731287
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (347 p)
Series Statement:
Sexuality, Culture and Health
Parallel Title:
Print version Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Diversity, Representations and Health
DDC:
306.709598
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Sex, sexuality and sexual relationships are hotly debated in Indonesia, triggering complex and often passionate responses. This innovative volume explores these issues in a variety of ways. It highlights historical and newer forms of sexual diversity, as well as the social responses they provoke. It critiques differing representations of sexuality, pointing to the multiplicity of discourses within which sexuality and 'the sexual' are understood in modern-day Indonesia. Placing sexuality centre-stage and locating it within the specific historical context of the Reformasi era, this landmark volu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: mapping sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia; PART I Sexual politics; 1 Surveilling sexuality in Indonesia; 2 Masculinity, sexuality and Islam: the gender politics of regime change in Indonesia; 3 The sexual politics of polygamy in Indonesian marriages; PART II Sexual health; 4 Negotiating risk: Indonesian couples navigating marital relationships, reproduction and HIV; 5 Sexual tensions: HIV-positive women in Papua
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Chemicals, biocapital and the everyday lives of sex workers and waitresses in South Sulawesi7 Sexual morality and the silencing of sexual health within Indonesian infertility care; Part III Sexual diversity; 8 Discursive contestations concerning intersex in Indonesia: stigma, rights and identities; 9 'I just ate some chilli': identities, bodies and sexual practices of young female sex workers in Java; 10 Belonging, community and identity: gay men in Indonesia; 11 Lesbian subjectivities: butch, femme and andro from the New Order to Reformasi era Indonesia; PART IV Sexual representations
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Indonesian grannies and transnational sexualities: negotiating sexuality, gender, age and belonging through cultural dance performance13 Sex on Indonesia's screens; 14 Indonesian beauty queens: embodying ethnicity, sexual morality and the nation; 15 Sexuality, politics and loss of innocence: recent literary explorations; Afterword: reflections on sexual rights, politics and sexuality studies in Indonesia; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
