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Body Politics
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 Bewitching
Women, Pious Men : Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
by Aihwa Ong (Editor), Michael G. Peletz (Editor)
This
impressive 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, the authors provide new ways of
understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and
transnational forms of knowledge and power. Contributors cut
across disciplinary boundaries and draw on fresh fieldwork and
textual analysis, including newspaper accounts, radio reports, and
feminist writing. Their subjects range widely: the writings of
feminist Filipinas; Thai stories of widow ghosts; eye-witness
accounts of a beheading; narratives of bewitching genitals,
recalcitrant husbands, and market women as femmes fatales.
Geographically, the essays cover Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Thailand, and the Philippines. The essays bring to this region the
theoretical insights of gender theory, political economy, and
cultural studies. Gender and other forms of inequality and
difference emerge as changing systems of symbols and meanings.
Bodies are explored as sites of political, economic, and cultural
transformation. The issues raised in these pages make important
connections between behavior, bodies, domination, and resistance
in this dynamic and vibrant region. "This
collection presents new ethnographic research, framed in terms of
new theoretical developments, and contains fine scholarship and
lively writing." -- Janet Hoskins, University of Southern
California About the Authors
Aihwa Ong is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University
of California, Berkeley, and author of Spirits
of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline (1987). Michael G.
Peletz is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate
University and author of A
Share of the Harvest (California, 1988).
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Body Politic is about sex and sexual, social, political attitudes and manners. It seeks to map the ever changing and constantly fascinating areas of modern sexual activity. It is both serious and entertaining, passionate and analytic, informative and witty.
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This directory includes fax and phone numbers,
plus e-mail and web page listings for every state.
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Body Politics Decoupling the subject from a fixed body-boundary, whether in
Virtual Reality, cyberspace or prosthetics, has political and ethical implications. The
commercialization of body technologies and images...
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From the The Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
The Body Politic
existed for just over 15 years, publishing 135 issues from late
1971 to early 1987. It was based in Toronto, but became the
leading journal of gay liberation in all of Canada and -- with an
eventual third of its circulation outside the country -- an
internationally respected voice of radical gay thought.
Other Body Politic resources from the
Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives:
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By Rick Bébout
This site offers an excellent introduction to the
origin of The Body Politic -- 1971 through 1974.
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In the gorgeous, occasionally garish, always
gratifying works of the great American artist Paul Cadmus, sailors
and sunbathers, models and mannequins, nitwits and nudes all are
suffused with a sensuality born equally of idyllic splendor and
urban squalor, natural grace and graceful artifice. Active since
the 1930s as a renderer of pretty boys and ugly ploys, Cadmus has
spent many remarkable decades honing a singularly complex style of
idealized sexuality and vivid displeasure in justly celebrated
paintings, drawings and etchings of nude figures, fantastical
scenes and supercharged allegories.
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Essay by Petra
Rethmann, McGill University
This essay attempts to decipher Soviet
colonialist policy towards indigenous populations within Russia.
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Politics of the Body BODY POLITIX Stories by writers and visitors help show how law, politics, policy, culture and business shape our bodies, the politics of the
flesh, etc.
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