| Description |
x, 309 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
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9. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East / Jane A. Margold |
| Notes |
Based on a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in the winter of 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences) -- Southeast Asia.
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Sex role -- Southeast Asia.
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| SUBJECT |
Asia, Southeastern -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117018
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| Author |
Ong, Aihwa.
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Peletz, Michael Gates
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| LC no. |
94022740 |
| ISBN |
0520088603 (cased) |
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0520088611 (paperback) |
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