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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808133003321

Titolo

Men and masculinities in Southeast Asia / / edited by Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-59379-9

1-283-70890-6

0-203-19739-9

1-136-59380-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; ; 41

Altri autori (Persone)

FordMichele

LyonsLenore

Disciplina

305.310959

Soggetti

Men - Southeast Asia

Masculinity - Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Masculinities afloat : Filipino seafarers and the situational performance of manhood / Steven Mckay and Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III -- Masculine intent and migrant manhood : Thai workmen talking sex / Pattana Kitiarsa -- Low wage Vietnamese immigrants remake social class and masculinity in the homeland / Hung Cam Thai -- Homosociality and desire : charting Chinese Singaporean sex tourists' online conversations / Sophie Williams, Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford -- Being broh : the good, the bad and the successful man in Cambodia / Trude Jacobsen -- Violence, masculinities, and patriarchy in post-conflict Timor-Leste / Henri Myrttinen -- The biggest cock : territoriality, invulnerability, and honour amongst Jakarta's gangsters / Ian Wilson -- Defending the nation : Malay men's experience of national service in Singapore / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the book examines



both dominant and marginal constructions of heterosexual masculinity and the ways in which these are performed in different localized contexts in insular and mainland Southeast Asia. Through the presentation of detailed ethnographic studies on topics ranging from the professional practices of Filipino merchant seafarers to the se