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SUMMARY:Gender and sexual pluralism in Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Room 3.08
DESCRIPTION:Across Southeast Asia, gender and sexual diversity is more rest
 ricted today than it was a hundred years ago. The sida-sida, for example, w
 ere a particular class of ritual-specialists among the Malays who were cons
 idered to combine female and male properties, and through this combination 
 they were invested with spiritual power. The bissu, a particular class of r
 itual-specialists among the Bugis of South Sulawesi, occupied a special soc
 ial position because they combined female and male qualities. The Ngaju Day
 ak, a group living on the island of Borneo, knew the ritual transgender spe
 cialists as basir, while in Burma they were famous as the nat kadaw. Gender
  and sexual pluralism has been severely transformed by colonial and postcol
 onial state policies in the context of economic and religious developments.
  However, transgender identities and practices still exist in contemporary 
 times, albeit marginalized. The mak andam in Malaysia are ritual practition
 ers whose role is to plan weddings and prepare brides. Many male transvesti
 tes in the Philippines, in Thailand or in Indonesia work in the beauty sect
 or. In Singapore, homosexuality is still punishable by law; at the same tim
 e, the city-state has become one of Asia’s gay capitals. \n\nThis panel inv
 ites presentations that deal with past and present gender and sexual plural
 ism in Southeast Asia and its complex negotiation processes between politic
 al, religious and economic spheres. On an empirical level it can be analyze
 d, among other things, how gender and sexuality are related to one another;
  what role transgender people play in contemporary Southeast Asia and how t
 hey perceive their identities. On a theoretical level, papers can address, 
 for instance, interlinkages between categorization processes of what counts
  as “transgender”, “third gender”, “female”, “male”, “homosexual” or “heter
 osexual” in the context of nation state building, class formation, religion
  and  ethnicity; transformations in understandings of “femininity” and “mas
 culinity” or the role of morality and spirituality as part of these process
 es.
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/gender-and-sexual-pluralism-in-southeast-asia
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