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Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia
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Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia Hardcover - 1990 - 1st Edition

by Joint Committee on Southeast Asia; Jane Atkinson (Editor); Shelly Errington (Editor)


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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.

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  • Title Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia
  • Author Joint Committee on Southeast Asia; Jane Atkinson (Editor); Shelly Errington (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 520
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Date November 1, 1990
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780804717816 / 0804717818
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89078330
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.309
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