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Title:

"Male" and "female" in developing Southeast Asia / edited by Wazir Jahan Karim.

Publisher:

Berg Publishers,

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

xiv, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Sex role--Asia, Southeastern.
Gender identity--Asia, Southeastern.
Women--Asia, Southeastern--Social conditions.
Feminist anthropology--Asia, Southeastern.
Women--Asia, Southeastern--Identity.

Other Authors:

Wazir-Jahan Karim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: a woman looks back on the anthropology of women and femist anthropolog / R. Firth -- Introducation: genderising anthropology in Southeast Asia / W.J. Karim -- Bilateralism and gender in Southeast Asia / W.J. Karim -- Gender at the margins of Southeast Asia / O. Klein-Hutheesing -- Modern Malay women and message of the "Veil" / J. Nagata -- Engendering disquiet: On kinship and gender in Bali / M. Hobart -- Buddhism, merit making and gender: The competition for salvation in Laos / M. Ngaosyvathn -- Vietnamese women and Confucianism: creating spaces from patriarchy / S.
O'Harrow -- Performance and gender in Javanese palace tradition / F. Hughes-Freeland -- Redefining the M̀aybahay' or housewife: reflections on the nature of women's work in the Philippines / J.F. Illo -- The significance of èating': cooperation, support, and reputation in Kelantan Malay household -- Rewriting gender and development anthropology in Southeast Asia / P. Van Esterik.

Series:

Cross-cultural perspectives on women, 1068-8536 ; vol. 14

ISBN:

9781859730270 (pbk.)
1859730272 (pbk.)
9780854969050 (cloth)
0854969055 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31710302

LCCN:

94046165

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)