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Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves

Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves

Davies, Sharyn Graham

Paperback

Series: ASAA Women in Asia

Gifts & Stationery GeneralGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0415695937
ISBN13: 9780415695930
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 4 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores the nature of gender diversity in Indonesia, and with the world's largest Muslim population, it examines Islam in this context. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it discusses in particular calalai - female-born individuals who identify as neither woman nor man; calabai - male-born individuals who also identify as neither man nor woman; and bissu - an order of shamans who embody female and male elements. The book examines the lives and roles of these variously gendered subjectivities in everyday life, including in low-status and high-status ritual such as wedding ceremonies, fashion parades, cultural festivals, Islamic recitations and shamanistic rituals. The book analyses the place of such subjectivities in relation to theories of gender, gender diversity and sexuality.

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