Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times
Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times
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近代以来东南亚的跨性别主义和性别多元化
DOI：
10.1086/498947
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
M. Peletz
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作者：
M. Peletz
本文发展了性别多元主义的概念，分析近代以来东南亚的历史和民族志材料。在分析跨性别主义的背景下，将这一概念作为一种视角来看待这种多元化，这就需要对许多关于性别和性的著作进行干预。这种干预涉及一种解释框架，有助于对文化上相互关联的领域进行比较历史调查，这些领域在学术报道中经常被分离或忽视，当性别被解释为女性的代名词，从而在研究开始之前就被剥夺了大部分重要性，或者当变性人的做法或某些性行为模式被相对孤立地与其他重要组成部分分开审查时，更广泛地涵盖性/性别和他们所处的文化政治体系。有人认为，这一地区和时期的跨性别主义提供了一个宝贵的窗口性别多元化，部分原因是变迁的跨性别广泛指数的更大的正规化和隔离的性别角色，远离妇女的权力和声望的来源，削弱范围内的合法性有关的东西色情和性，以及作为一个整体的多元性别敏感性的收缩。
This article develops the concept of gender pluralism to analyze historical and ethnographic material bearing on Southeast Asia since early modern times. Deployment of this concept in the context of an analysis that approaches transgenderism as an optic through which to view such pluralism entails an intervention against the grain of much writing on gender and sexuality. This intervention involves an interpretive framework conducive to the comparative historical investigation of culturally interlocked domains that are often separated or ignored in scholarly accounts, as occurs when gender is construed as a code word for women and is thus stripped of much of its significance before research has begun or when transgender practices or certain modalities of sexuality are examined in relative isolation from other salient components of the more encompassing sex/gender and culturalpolitical systems of which they are a part. It is argued that for this region and period transgenderism provides a valuable window on gender pluralism partly because the vicissitudes of transgendering are broadly indexical of the greater formalization and segregation of gender roles, the distancing of women from sources of power and prestige, the attenuated range of legitimacy concerning things erotic and sexual, and the constriction of pluralistic gender sensibilities as a whole.