Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-72627-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the book examines both dominant and marginal constructions of heterosexual masculinity and the ways in which these are performed in different localized contexts in insular and mainland Southeast Asia. Through the presentation of detailed ethnographic studies on topics ranging from the professional practices of Filipino merchant seafarers to the sex lives of Thai migrant workers to the stand-over tactics of Indonesian gangsters, the authors in this collection challenge the idea of emerging globalizing forms of masculinities. Where existing studies of gender in Asia tend to concentrate on women, East Asia and gay men, this book fills a significant gap and demonstrates, overall, how gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality shape contemporary understandings of what it means to be a ‘man’ in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ford, Michele

Lyons, Lenore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Masculinities Afloat: Filipino Seafarers and the Situational Performance of Manhood 2. Masculine Intent and Migrant Manhood: Thai Workmen Talking Sex 3. Low Wage Vietnamese Immigrants Remake Social Class and Masculinity in the Homeland 4. Homosociality and Desire: Charting Chinese Singaporean Sex Tourists’ Online Conversations 5. Being Broh: The Good, the Bad and the Successful Man in Cambodia 6. Violence, Masculinities and Patriarchy in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste 7. The Biggest Cock: Territoriality, Invulnerability and Honour Amongst Jakarta’s Gangsters 8. Defending the Nation: Malay Men’s Experience of National Service in Singapore

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Ford is Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She isthe co-editor of Women and Work in Indonesia and Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism (both published by Routledge). Lenore Lyons isHonourary Professor in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University ofSydney, Australia. She is the author of A State of Ambivalence: The Feminist Movement in Singapore.