Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia - (Key Issues in Asian Studies) by Michael G Peletz (Paperback)

About the Book

"Addresses topics of the highest significance for multiple disciplines--anthropology, sociology, gender studies, Asian studies, religion, geography, political science, and history. This engagingly written booklet--designed for use in undergraduate humanities and social science courses, as well as by advanced high school students and their teachers--has great potential for use in the classroom, encouraging debate and discussion. It will also appeal to specialists in the field owing to Peletz's ability to present sophisticated yet accessible discussions of a broad range of topics. Drawing on the vast body of scholarship by those who have either grown up in the region or spent many years engaged in anthropological fieldwork or other research, Peletz provides a masterful overview of gender, sexuality, and body politics in modern Asia, presenting multiple perspectives in an accessible, jargon-free style"--

Book Synopsis

Peletz's book addresses topics of the highest significance for multiple disciplines, effectively linking gender issues and gendered identities to many other matters of current and enduring import across Asia -- including public health, violence, industrialization, and media. Peletz has made an extraordinary effort to do justice to multiple complexities while delivering a wonderfully succinct and lucid text.

About the Author

MICHAEL G. PELETZ is Professor and former Chair of Anthropology at Emory University. Professor Peletz's specialties include social theory, gender, sexuality, kinship, law, religion (especially Islam), and modernity, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. He is the author of Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times (Routledge, 2009); Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia (Princeton, 2002); Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society (California, 1996); and A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History among the Malays of Rembau (California, 1988). He is also the coeditor, with Aihwa Ong, of Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia (California, 1995).