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Title Sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia : sexual politics, health, diversity, and representations / edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies
Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Sexuality, culture and health
Sexuality, culture and health series.
Contents Introduction : mapping sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia / Sharyn Graham Davies and Linda Rae Bennett -- Surveilling sexuality in Indonesia / Sharyn Graham Davies -- Religious-based sexual politics, masculinist gender order and regime change in Indonesia / Kathryn Robinson -- The sexual politics of polygamy in Indonesian marriages / Nina Nurmila and Linda Rae Bennett -- Negotiating risk : Indonesian couples navigating marital relationships, reproduction, and HIV / Irwan Martua Hidayana and Brigitte Tenni -- Sexual tensions : HIV-positive women in Papua / Leslie Butt -- Chemicals, biocapital, and the everyday lives of sex workers and waitresses in South Sulawesi / Nurul Ilmi Idrus and Anita Hardon -- Sexual morality and the silencing of sexual health within Indonesian infertility care / Linda Rae Bennett -- Discursive contestations concerning intersex in Indonesia : stigma, rights and identities / Saskia E. Wieringa -- "I just ate some chilli" : identities, bodies and sexual practices of young female sex workers in Java / Harriot Beazley -- Belonging, community and identitym : gay men in Indonesia / Stephen Mcnally, Jeffrey Grierson, and Irwan Martua Hidayana -- The contentious category of lesbian : butch, femme and andro from the new order to reformasi era Indonesia / Evelyn Blackwood -- Indonesian grannies and transnational sexualities : negotiating sexuality, gender, age and belonging through cultural dance performance / Monika Swasti Winarnita -- Sex on indonesia's screens / Thomas Barker -- Indonesian beauty queens : embodying ethnicity, sexual morality, and the nation / Helen Pausacker -- Sexuality, politics, and loss of innocence : recent literary explorations / Pamela Allen -- Afterword : reflections on sexual rights, politics and sexuality studies in indonesia / Dédé Oetomo and Tom Boellstorff
Summary Sex, sexuality and sexual relationships are hotly debated in Indonesia, triggering complex and often passionate responses. This innovative volume explores these issues in a variety of ways. It highlights historical and newer forms of sexual diversity, as well as the social responses they provoke. It critiques differing representations of sexuality, pointing to the multiplicity of discourses within which sexuality and 'the sexual' are understood in modern-day Indonesia. Placing sexuality centre-stage and locating it within the specific historical context of the Reformasi era, this landmark volu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Reproductive health -- Indonesia
Sex customs -- Indonesia
Sex -- Indonesia
Sex Workers
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Reproductive health
Sex
Sex customs
Indonesia
Form Electronic book
Author Bennett, Linda Rae, editor.
Davies, Sharyn Graham, editor.
ISBN 9781317910978
1317910974
9781315849805
1315849801
1322435677
9781322435671