Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

by Michael G. Peletz

Book Overview

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009

This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least begrudgingly tolerate them, and why in other contexts are people less receptive to difference, sometimes overtly hostile to it and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415931614
• ISBN13: 9780415931618
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"