Bewitching Women, Pious Men
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analysis
asian culture
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essay anthology
essay collection
eyewitness
femininity
fieldwork
gender
gender construct
gender studies
gender theory
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
Product details
- ISBN 9780520088610
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 1995
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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; and, 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.
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).
