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Bewitching women, pious men : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia / edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (x, 309 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520915343
  • 0520915348
  • 0585131422
  • 9780585131429
  • 9780520088610
  • 0520088611
  • 9780520088603
  • 0520088603
  • 128338213X
  • 9781283382137
  • 9786613382139
  • 6613382132
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bewitching women, pious men.DDC classification:
  • 305.3/0959 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1075.5.A785 B49 1995eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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; Thai stories of widow ghosts; eye-witness accounts of a beheading; narratives of bewitching genitals, recalcitrant husbands, and market women as femmes fatales. Geographically, the essays cover Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The essays bring to this region the theoretical insights of gender theory, political economy, and cultural studies. Gender and other forms of inequality and difference emerge as changing systems of symbols and meanings. Bodies are explored as sites of political, economic, and cultural transformation. The issues raised in these pages make important connections between behavior, bodies, domination, and resistance in this dynamic and vibrant region.
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Based on a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in the winter of 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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; Thai stories of widow ghosts; eye-witness accounts of a beheading; narratives of bewitching genitals, recalcitrant husbands, and market women as femmes fatales. Geographically, the essays cover Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The essays bring to this region the theoretical insights of gender theory, political economy, and cultural studies. Gender and other forms of inequality and difference emerge as changing systems of symbols and meanings. Bodies are explored as sites of political, economic, and cultural transformation. The issues raised in these pages make important connections between behavior, bodies, domination, and resistance in this dynamic and vibrant region.

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