Power and difference : gender in island Southeast Asia

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Power and difference : gender in island Southeast Asia

edited by Jane Monnig Atkinson and Shelly Errington

Stanford University Press, 1990

  • : alk. paper
  • : pbk

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Papers from a conference held Dec. 13, 1983 in Princeton, N.J

Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-488) and index

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Although the societies of island Southeast Asia(Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, plus Brunei and Singapore) are known for their egalitarian relations between men and women, subtle differences in power and status do exist. These differences are often difficult to conceptualize, and, consequently, the theoretical issues posed by such relatively egalitarian gender systems have been largely unexamined in Western scholarship, even thought these issues are of great importance to feminists and others interested in culture and power. This book is about difference and power as they relate to men and women in island Southeast Asia. It examines how differences between 'male' and 'female' (as gendered concepts of the person) and between men and women (as living beings engaged in activities) are constituted there in assumptions and through practices, and how power is envisioned and distributed among men and women. The book begins with a substantial theoretical essay on gender, power, and the body, which is followed by eleven studies of aspects of gender in various parts of island Southeast Asia. Through the intertwined perspectives of anthropological and feminist studies, the volume recasts old analytic puzzles in innovative ways, advances recognition of new puzzles, and contributes to a multidisciplinary understanding of the sociocultural dimensions of gender and related systems of 'person classification'.<

目次

  • 1. Recasting sex, gender, and power: a theoretical and regional overview Shelly Errington
  • 2. How gender makes a difference in Wana society Jane Monnig Atkinson
  • 3. Gender and performance in meratus dispute settlement Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
  • 4. Speaking of gender in Java Ward Keeler
  • 5. Talking about troubles: gender differences in Weyewa ritual speech use Joel C. Kuipers
  • 6. Theatrical imagery and gender ideology in Java Barbara Hatley
  • 7. Balinese twins times two: gender, birth order, and 'househood' in Indonesia/Indo-Europe James A. Boon
  • 8. Both nature and culture: reflections on menstrual and parturitional taboos in Huaulu (seram) Valerio Valeri
  • 9. Doubling deities, descent, and personhood: an exploration of kodi gender categories Janet Hoskins
  • 10. The symbolic representation of women in a changing Batak culture Susan Rodgers
  • 11. Collision of cultures: historical reformulations of gender in the lowland Visayas, Philippines Christina Blanc-Szanton
  • 12. Japanese factories, Malay workers: class and sexual metaphors in West Malaysia Aihwu Ong
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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