Lyons Lenore - Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia

Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia

This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the book examines both dominant and marginal constructions of heterosexual masculinity and the ways in which these are performed in different localized contexts in insular and mainland Southeast Asia. Through the presentation of detailed ethnographic studies on topics ranging from the professional practices of Filipino merchant seafarers to the sex lives of Thai migrant workers to the standover tactics of Indonesian gangsters, the authors in this collection challenge the idea of emerging globalizing forms of masculinities. Where existing studies of gender in Asia tend to concentrate on women, East Asia and gay men, this book fills a significant gap and demonstrates how gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality shape contemporary understandings of what it means to be a man in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Michele Ford is Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the co-editor of Women and Work in Indonesia and Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism (both published by Routledge).

Lenore Lyons is Honorary Professor in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of A State of Ambivalence: The Feminist Movement in Singapore.

Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

1 Land Tenure, Conservation and Development in Southeast Asia

Peter Eaton

2 The Politics of IndonesiaMalaysia Relations

One kin, two nations

Joseph Chinyong Liow

3 Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar

Education, health and environment

Helen James

4 Regionalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Edited by Maribeth Erb, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto and Carole Faucher

5 Living with Transition in Laos

Market integration in Southeast Asia

Jonathan Rigg

6 Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia

Charles E. Farhadian

7 Violent Conflicts in Indonesia

Analysis, representation, resolution

Edited by Charles A. Coppel

8 Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia

Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Ronald Bruce St John

9 The Politics of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma

Aristotle and the rhetoric of benevolent despotism

Stephen McCarthy

10 Ageing in Singapore

Service needs and the state

Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang and Angelique Chan

11 Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

Helen James

12 Expressions of Cambodia

The politics of tradition, identity and change

Edited by Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier and Tim Winter

13 Financial Fragility and Instability in Indonesia

Yasuyuki Matsumoto

14 The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics

The deployment of adat from colonialism to indigenism

Edited by Jamie S. Davidson and David Henley

15 Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia

Small town wars

Gerry van Klinken

16 Singapore in the Global System

Relationship, structure and change

Peter Preston

17 Chinese Big Business in Indonesia

The state of capital

Christian Chua

18 Ethno-religious Violence in Indonesia

From soil to God

Chris Wilson

19 Ethnic Politics in Burma

States of conflict

Ashley South

20 Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Edited by Marco Bnte and Andreas Ufen

21 Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia

Golkar in the post-Suharto era

Dirk Tomsa

22 Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia

Locating the commonweal

Edited by Carol Warren and John F. McCarthy

23 Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia

Jakartas security and autonomy policies in Aceh

Michelle Ann Miller

24 Hadrami Arabs in Present-day Indonesia

An Indonesia-oriented group with an Arab signature

Frode F. Jacobsen

25 Vietnams Political Process

How education shapes political decision making

Casey Lucius

26 Muslims in Singapore

Piety, politics and policies

Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius A. Pereira and Bryan S. Turner

27 Timor Leste

Politics, history and culture

Andrea Katalin Molnar

28 Gender and Transitional Justice

The women of East Timor

Susan Harris Rimmer

29 Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia

ASEANs regime for trans-boundary haze pollution

Paruedee Nguitragool

30 The Theatre and the State in Singapore

Terence Chong

31 Ending Forced Labour in Myanmar

Engaging a pariah regime

Richard Horsey

32 Security, Development and Nation-Building in Timor-Leste

A cross-sectoral assessment

Edited by Vandra Harris and Andrew Goldsmith

33 The Politics of Religion in Indonesia

Syncretism, orthodoxy, and religious contention in Java and Bali

Edited by Michel Picard and Remy Madinier

34 Singapores Ageing Population

Managing healthcare and end of life decisions

Edited by Wing-Cheong Chan

35 Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia

Economic and socio-cultural dimensions

Edited by Gavin W. Jones, Terence H. Hull and Maznah Mohamad

36 The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia

Conflict and leadership

Edited by Marcus Mietzner

37 Neoliberal Morality in Singapore

How family policies make state and society

Youyenn Teo

38 Local Politics in Indonesia

Pathways to power

Nankyung Choi

39 Separatist Conflict in Indonesia

The long-distance politics of the Acehnese diaspora

Antje Missbach

40 Corruption and Law in Indonesia

The unravelling of Indonesias anti-corruption framework through law and legal process

Simon Butt

41 Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia

Edited by Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons

Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia

Edited by Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons

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