Gender in Southeast Asia Roces Mina
Gender in Southeast Asia Roces Mina This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes. Roces introduces hegemonic discourses on ideal masculinities and ideal femininities,…
Specifikacia Gender in Southeast Asia Roces Mina
Gender in Southeast Asia Roces Mina
This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes. Roces introduces hegemonic discourses on ideal masculinities and ideal femininities, evaluates the impact of religion, analyses how authoritarian regimes fashion these ideals. The first concerns hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and Southeast Asian subjects' responses to these dominant discourses.
The second theme concerns the ways hegemonic ideals influence the gendering of power and politics. Discussion then turns to the hegemonic ideals surrounding desire and sexualities and the way these are policed by society and the state. Roces argues that because many Southeast Asians see power as being held by kinship alliance groups, women are able to access political power through their ties with men-as wives, mothers, daughters, sisters and even mistresses.
However, women's movements have challenged this
Civil Society in Southeast Asia
Queer Southeast Asia
Birds of Southeast Asia