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What Does a Gender Relations Approach Bring to Southeast Asian Studies?

Robinson, Kathryn

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�High status� of women has been one of the social characteristics used by scholars to define Southeast Asia as a field of study. Since the 1970s, feminist critiques of mainstream scholarship have challenged the idea that we can analyze the situation of women outside a broader framework and attend to the structuring of sex differences and gender inequality that encompasses masculinity as well as femininity. This chapter reviews the development of approaches to studying gender that have grown out...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Kathryn
dc.contributor.editorMikko Huotari
dc.contributor.editorJurgen Ruland
dc.contributor.editorJudith Schlehe
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:44:13Z
dc.date.available2015-12-07T22:44:13Z
dc.identifier.isbn9781137397539
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/25103
dc.description.abstract�High status� of women has been one of the social characteristics used by scholars to define Southeast Asia as a field of study. Since the 1970s, feminist critiques of mainstream scholarship have challenged the idea that we can analyze the situation of women outside a broader framework and attend to the structuring of sex differences and gender inequality that encompasses masculinity as well as femininity. This chapter reviews the development of approaches to studying gender that have grown out of the renewal of feminism in the late 1960s, referencing some of the important ways Southeast Asian scholarship linked to this scholarship. In particular it tracks the move from studying the �position of women� to �gender relations,� which includes studies of femininity and masculinity. I argue that this body of scholarship presents an epistemological critique which impacts how we use the �tool kit� of research methods in the humanities and social sciences. Research strategies arising from current theorizing of gender relations can be deployed by researchers in Southeast Asian studies, and my own analysis of gender relations in Indonesia is used to exemplify this approach. Gender relations are imbricated in the exercise of power in all social arenas: I suggest a framework that allows us to understand the expression of gendered power in institutional structures of politics and economics, in symbolism and ideology, and in the formation of social attachments.
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofMethodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
dc.titleWhat Does a Gender Relations Approach Bring to Southeast Asian Studies?
dc.typeBook chapter
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
dc.date.issued2014
local.identifier.absfor169903 - Studies of Asian Society
local.identifier.absfor169901 - Gender Specific Studies
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4407829xPUB36
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationRobinson, Kathryn, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage107
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage127
local.identifier.doi10.1057/9781137397546
local.identifier.absseo950502 - Understanding Asia's Past
dc.date.updated2020-12-13T07:25:49Z
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationHampshire
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85018709925
CollectionsANU Research Publications

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