Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

ISBN-13: 9780415931618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 342 str.

Michael G. Peletz

Opis

Essential reading for scholars of gender and sexuality and anyone interested in Asia.

This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least begrudgingly tolerate them, and why in other contexts are people less receptive to difference, sometimes overtly hostile to it and bent on its eradication? What are the cultural and political conditions conducive to the positive valorization and acceptance of difference? And, conversely, what conditions undermine or erode such positive views and acceptance? This book examines pluralism in gendered fields and domains in Southeast Asia since the early modern era, which historians and anthropologists of the region commonly define as the period extending roughly from the 15^th to the 18^th centuries.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Gender Pluralism and Transgender Practices in Early Modern Times  3. Temporary Marriage, Connubial Commerce, and Colonial Body Politics  4. Transgender Practices, Same-Sex Relations, and Gender Pluralism Since the 1960s  5. Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Epilogue: Asylum, Diaspora, Pluralism

O autorze

Michael G. Peletz is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. His specialties include social theory, gender, sexuality, Islam, and modernity, particularly in Southeast Asia. He is the author of Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia (Princeton, 2002), Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society (California, 1996), A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History among the Malays of Rembau (California, 1988). He is also the co-editor with Aihwa Ong, of Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia (California, 1995).