Bewitching Women, Pious Men
Subtitle: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Contributors: Aihwa Ong (Editor); Michael G Peletz (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 7, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780520088610
Subjects: Anthropology; Gender Studies; Social life and customs; Sociology; South East Asia; Asia - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Asia, Southeastern; Power (Social sciences); Sex role
First sentence: The ethnographic literature on Java has referred repeatedly over the years to a concept that can be glossed as "spiritual potency" (see Keeler 1987, 1990; C. Geertz 1960; Anderson 1972; Hatley 1990; S. Errington 1990).