Bewitching women, pious men : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia / edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz
- Bib ID:
- 833523
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c1995
- x, 309 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0520088603 (cased)
- 0520088611 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz
- 1. Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control / Suzanne A. Brenner
- 2. Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict / Jennifer Krier
- 3. Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society /Michael G. Peletz
- 4. Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village / Evelyn Blackwood
- 5. State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong
- 6. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore / Geraldine Heng and Janadas Devan
- 7. Alternative Filipina Heroines: Contested Tropes in Leftist Feminisms / Jacqueline Siapno
- 8. Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand / Mary Beth Mills.
- 9. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East / Jane A. Margold.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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