NINE. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. CONTRIBUTORS vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. Introduction 1
6. ONE. Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control 19
7. TWO Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict 51
8. THREE. Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society 76
9. FOUR. Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village 124
10. FIVE. State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia 159
11. SIX. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore 195
12. SEVEN. Alternative Filipina Heroines: Con tested Tropes in Leftist F eminisms 216
13. EIGHT. Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand 244
14. NINE. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East 274
15. INDEX 299