Peletz, Michael G. <br/><br/>
Gender pluralism :  southeast Asia since early modern times / 
Michael G. Peletz. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2009. 
 - viii, 339 p. :  map ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-330) and index. 
<br/><br/>Gender pluralism and transgender practices in early modern times. Some gendered themes in the political cultures of pre-and early modern states ; Transgender practices and gender pluralism in early modern times -- Temporary marriage, connubial commerce, and colonial body politics. Temporary marriage ; From temporary wives to concubines and prostitutes ; Colonial body politics and the constriction of pluralism -- Transgender practices, same-sex relations, and gender pluralism since the 1960s. Some insular southeast Asian cases ; The case of Burma -- Gender, sexuality, and body politics at the turn of the twenty-first century. Transgendered ritualists and Pondan ; "Asian values" and new types of criminality ; The pink triangle, the urban/sexual underground, and the struggle for sexual equality ; Engaging "tolerance," open secrets, and governmentality. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415931618 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008042130 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Gender identity--Southeast Asia.<br/>Sex customs--Southeast Asia.<br/>Sex role--Southeast Asia.<br/>Transgender people--Southeast Asia.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1075.5.S64  / P45 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.30959