Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia
Subtitle: youth, courtship, and sexuality
By: edited by Lenore Manderson and Pranee Liamputtong.
Contributors: Manderson, Lenore.; Liamputtong, Pranee, 1955-
Series: NIAS studies in Asian topics ;; 30
Publisher: Curzon
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Youth -- South Asia -- Sexual behavior; Youth -- Southeast Asia -- Sexual behavior; Young adults -- South Asia -- Sexual behavior; Young adults -- Southeast Asia -- Sexual behavior; Courtship -- South Asia; Courtship -- Southeast Asia; Jeunesse -- Asie méridionale -- Sexualité; Jeunesse -- Asie du Sud-Est -- Sexualité; Jeunes adultes -- Asie méridionale -- Sexualité; Jeunes adultes -- Asie du Sud-Est -- Sexualité
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : youth and sexuality in contemporary Asian societies / Lenore Manderson and Pranee Liamputtong; title: Water serpents and staying by the fire : markers of maturity in a Northeast Thai village / Andrea Whittaker; title: Poor and 'dark' : what is my future? Identity construction and adolescent women in Bangladesh / Santi Rozario; title: Adolescence and sexuality in the Rajasthani context / Anuradha Kumar; title: Inflatable bodies and the breath of life : courtship and desire among young women in rural North Bali / Megan Jennaway; title: Modernity, desire and courtship : the evolution of premarital relationships in Mataram, Eastern Indonesia / Linda Rae Bennett; title: Contextualizing sexuality : young men in Kerala, South India / Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella; title: Social and cultural contexts of single young men's heterosexual relationships : a view from Metro Manila / Romeo B. Lee; title: Gender socialization and female sexuality in Northern Thailand / Warunee Fongkaew; title: Magic lipstick and verbal caress : doubling standards in Isan villages / Chris Lyttleton; title: The hope of the nation : moral panics and the construction of teenagerhood in contemporary Malaysia / Maila Stivens; title: Sexual values and early experiences among young people in Jakarta / Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo; title: Sex work and socialization in a moral world : conflict and change in Bādī communities in Western Nepal / Linnet Pike; title: Gender, sexuality, and marriage among Hmong youth in Australia / Pranee Liamputtong.