Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia

by Aihwa Ong (Author)

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  1995

  $16.48

  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.

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  Paperback
  1995

  $44.42

  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.