Power and difference gender in island Southeast Asia - Atkinson, Jane Monnig; Errington, Shelly 1944-; Joint Committee on Southeast Asia (Stanford, California Stanford University Press, 1990)
Recasting sex, gender, and power : a theoretical and regional overview / Shelly Errington -- How gender makes a difference in Wana society / Jane Monnig Atkinson -- Gender and performance in Meratus dispute settlement / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Speaking of gender in Java / Ward Keeler -- Talking about troubles : gender differences in Weyéwa ritual speech use / Joel C. Kuipers -- Theatrical imagery and gender ideology in Java / Barbara Hatley -- Balinese twins times two : gender, birth order and "househood " in Indonesia/Indo-Europe / James A. Boon -- Both nature and culture : reflections on menstrual and parturitional taboos in Huaulu (Seram) / Valerio Valeri -- Doubling deities, descent and personhood : an exploration of Kodi gender categories / Janet Hoskins -- The symbolic representation of women in a changing Batak culture / Susan Rodgers -- Collision of cultures : historical reformulations of gender in the lowland Visayas, Philippines / Cristina Blanc-Szanton -- Japanese factories, Malay workers : class and sexual metaphors in West Malaysia / Aihwa Ong.
Papers from a conference held Dec. 13, 1983 in Princeton, N.J.
"Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Southeast Asia of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council."
Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-488) and index.
Keywords: Sex role -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses; Southeast Asia -- Social life and customs -- Congresses