Gender pluralism: Southeast Asia since early modern times

Abstract

Table of Contents Acknowledgments (3) Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Names (5) Chapter 1 -- Introduction (6) Chapter 2 -- Gender Pluralism and Transgender Practices in Early Modern Times (38) Some Gendered Themes in the Political Cultures of Pre- and Early Modern States Transgender Practices and Gender Pluralism Iban Ngaju Dayak Bugis Malays Burmese Thais Conclusion Chapter 3 -- Temporary Marriage, Connubial Commerce, and Colonial Body Politics (146) Temporary Marriage From Temporary Wives to Concubines and Prostitutes Colonial Body Politics and the Constriction of Pluralism Concubinage, Prostitution, and Sworn Sisterhood Desires That Dare Not Speak Their Names Conclusion Chapter 4 --Transgender Practices, Same-Sex Relations, and Gender Pluralism Since the 1960s (216) Some Insular Southeast Cases Iban Ngaju Dayak Bugis The Case of Burma Deeper into the Labyrinth(s) Women and Femininity at the Turn of the 21st Century Conclusion Chapter 5 -- Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics at the Turn of the 21st Century (311) Transgendered Ritualists and Pondan Asian Values and New Types of Criminality Narratives of Asian Values and the Rise of Social Intolerance New Types of Criminality: Azizah, Anwar, and Beyond The Pink Triangle, the Urban/Sexual Underground, and the Struggle for Sexual Equality Background and Context The Pink Triangle and the Urban/Sexual Communities It Serves Official Discourses on Communities in the Urban/Sexual Underground The Struggle for Sexual Equality Engaging Tolerance, Open Secrets, and Governmentality Conclusion Epilogue: Asylum, Diaspora, Pluralism (450) Bibliography (483) Index (534)