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

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3/0959; 305.30959
• Soggetto topico: Sex role - Southeast Asia; Power (Social sciences) - Southeast Asia
• Soggetto geografico: Southeast Asia Social life and customs
• Soggetto non controllato: analysis; asian culture; asian history; biology; cultural studies; essay anthology; essay collection; eyewitness; femininity; fieldwork; gender construct; gender studies; gender theory; gender; ghosts; human body; indonesia; inequality; international; literary analysis; literary criticism; malaysia; marriage; masculinity; nature vs nurture; philippines; political economy; singapore; southeast asia; supernatural; thailand; transnational; true story; widow
• Altri autori: OngAihwa PeletzMichael G
• Note generali: Based on a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in the winter of 1992.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- ONE. Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control -- TWO Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict -- THREE. Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society -- FOUR. Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village -- FIVE. State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia -- SIX. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore -- SEVEN. Alternative Filipina Heroines: Con tested Tropes in Leftist Feminisms -- EIGHT. Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand -- NINE. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bewitching women, pious men
• ISBN: 1-283-38213-X; 9786613382139; 0-520-91534-8; 0-585-13142-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778858703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II