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001 2008042130
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050 00 $aHQ1075.5.S64$bP45 2009
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100 1 $aPeletz, Michael G.
245 10 $aGender pluralism :$bsoutheast Asia since early modern times /$cMichael G. Peletz.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2009.
300 $aviii, 339 p. :$bmap ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [306]-330) and index.
505 0 $aGender pluralism and transgender practices in early modern times. Some gendered themes in the political cultures of pre-and early modern states ; Transgender practices and gender pluralism in early modern times -- Temporary marriage, connubial commerce, and colonial body politics. Temporary marriage ; From temporary wives to concubines and prostitutes ; Colonial body politics and the constriction of pluralism -- Transgender practices, same-sex relations, and gender pluralism since the 1960s. Some insular southeast Asian cases ; The case of Burma -- Gender, sexuality, and body politics at the turn of the twenty-first century. Transgendered ritualists and Pondan ; "Asian values" and new types of criminality ; The pink triangle, the urban/sexual underground, and the struggle for sexual equality ; Engaging "tolerance," open secrets, and governmentality.
650 0 $aGender identity$zSoutheast Asia.
650 0 $aSex customs$zSoutheast Asia.
650 0 $aSex role$zSoutheast Asia.
650 0 $aTransgender people$zSoutheast Asia.