TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peletz,Michael G.
TI  - Gender pluralism: southeast Asia since early modern times 
SN  - 9780415931601 (hardback)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Transgender people
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-330) and index; Gender 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
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