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Gender Diversity in Indonesia - Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves (Hardcover)
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Gender Diversity in Indonesia - Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves (Hardcover)
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
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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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