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Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Aihwa Ong
Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Aihwa Ong
An 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, it provides ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power.
314 pages, maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 7, 1995 |
ISBN13 | 9780520088610 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 314 |
Dimensions | 229 × 153 × 25 mm · 458 g |
Editor | Ong, Aihwa |
Editor | Peletz, Michael G. |