Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations

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Sex, sexuality and sexual relationships are hotly debated in Indonesia, triggering complex and often passionate responses. This innovative volume explores these issues in a variety of ways. It highlights historical and newer forms of sexual diversity, as well as the social responses they provoke. It critiques differing representations of sexuality, pointing to the multiplicity of discourses within which sexuality and ‘the sexual’ are understood in modern-day Indonesia. Placing sexuality centre-stage and locating it within the specific historical context of the Reformasi era, this landmark volume explores understandings and practices across a wide variety of sites, focusing in on a diverse group of Indonesian actors, and the contested meanings that sexuality carries. Beginning with a substantive introduction and concluding with a scholarly reflection on key issues, the volume is framed around the four themes of sexual politics, health, diversity and representations. It seeks both to present new empirical findings as well as to add to existing theoretical analysis. This work fills an important gap in our understanding of the evolution and contemporary dynamics of Indonesian sexualities. It will be of interest to scholars and academics from disciplines including gender and sexuality studies, global health, sexual and reproductive health, anthropology, sociology and Asian studies. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of figures......Page 11 List of tables......Page 12 List of contributors......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 18 Introduction: mapping sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia......Page 20 PART I Sexual politics......Page 46 1 Surveilling sexuality in Indonesia......Page 48 2 Masculinity, sexuality and Islam: the gender politics of regime change in Indonesia......Page 70 3 The sexual politics of polygamy in Indonesian marriages......Page 88 PART II Sexual health......Page 108 4 Negotiating risk: Indonesian couples navigating marital relationships, reproduction and HIV......Page 110 5 Sexual tensions: HIV-positive women in Papua......Page 128 6 Chemicals, biocapital and the everyday lives of sex workers and waitresses in South Sulawesi......Page 148 7 Sexual morality and the silencing of sexual health within Indonesian infertility care......Page 167 Part III Sexual diversity......Page 186 8 Discursive contestations concerning intersex in Indonesia: stigma, rights and identities......Page 188 9 ‘I just ate some chilli’: identities, bodies and sexual practices of young female sex workers in Java......Page 202 10 Belonging, community and identity: gay men in Indonesia......Page 222 11 Lesbian subjectivities: butch, femme and andro from the New Order to Reformasi era Indonesia......Page 239 PART IV Sexual representations......Page 254 12 Indonesian grannies and transnational sexualities: negotiating sexuality, gender, age and belonging through cultural dance performance......Page 256 13 Sex on Indonesia’s screens......Page 272 14 Indonesian beauty queens: embodying ethnicity, sexual morality and the nation......Page 292 15 Sexuality, politics and loss of innocence: recent literary explorations......Page 312 Afterword: reflections on sexual rights, politics and sexuality studies in Indonesia......Page 326 Index......Page 337