Bewitching Women, Pious Men - Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia

"This collection presents new ethnographic research, framed in terms of new theoretical developments, and contains fine scholarship and lively writing."—Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California

"This is a wonderful collection of essays. At one level they tell us about the transformation and often painful fragmentation of gendered selves in post-colonial states and a speeded-up transnational world. At another level they display the continuing power of ethnography to surprise and move us."—Sherry Ortner, University of California, Berkeley

List of contents

Contributors:
Evelyn Blackwood
Suzanne A. Brenner
Janadas Devan
Geraldine Heng
Jennifer Krier
Jane A. Margold
Mary Beth Mills
Aihwa Ong
Michael G. Peletz
Jacqueline Siapno

About the author

Aihwa Ong is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline (1987). Michael G. Peletz is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University and author of A Share of the Harvest (California, 1988).

Summary

An 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, it provides ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power.

Product details

• Authors: Aihwa Peletz Ong
• Assisted by: Aihwa Ong (Editor), Ong Aihwa (Editor), Michael G. Peletz (Editor), Michael Gates Peletz (Editor), Peletz Michael G. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.1995
• EAN: 9780520088610
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08861-0
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, South East Asia, Gender studies, gender groups