Michael G. Peletz is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. His specialties include social theory, gender, sexuality, Islam, and modernity, particularly in Southeast Asia. He is the author of Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia (Princeton, 2002), Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society (California, 1996), A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History among the Malays of Rembau (California, 1988). He is also the co-editor with Aihwa Ong, of Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia (California, 1995).
1. Introduction 2. Gender Pluralism and Transgender Practices in Early Modern Times 3. Temporary Marriage
Connubial Commerce
and Colonial Body Politics 4. Transgender Practices
Same-Sex Relations
and Gender Pluralism Since the 1960s 5. Gender
Sexuality
and Body Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Epilogue: Asylum
Diaspora
Pluralism
