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Bewitching women, pious men gender and body politics in Southeast Asia edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley ; London University of California Press c1995.Description: x, 309 p. maps 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520088611 (pbk.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.30959 AIH
Contents:
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. 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.
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Based on a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in the winter of 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. 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.

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