Gender in Southeast Asia

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Cover Title page Copyright page Gender in Southeast Asia Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Themes 1.2 Scholarship on Gender in Southeast Asia 2 Gender Ideals 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Ideal Men and Ideal Women 2.3 Critiquing Gender Ideals and Proposing New Ones 3 Religion 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Religious Power: Men as Spiritual Leaders, Women as Laity 3.3 Critiquing the Religious Roots of Oppression 4 Authoritarian Regimes Fashion Hegemonic Gender Ideals: Indonesia and Vietnam 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Impact of Social and Economic Transformationson State-Sanctioned Discourses 5 Desire and Sexualities 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Virile Men and Chaste Women 5.3 Subordinated Sexualities 5.4 Sexuality, Morality and the State 5.5 LGBT Activism 5.6 Imagining Alternative Constructions of Gender and Sexuality:The Migration Context 6 Power and Politics 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Men in Office, Women behind the Scenes 6.3 Activism and Gender Advocacy in the Realm of Politics 7 Conclusion References