Introduction: Gender and Culture in Contemporary Indonesia
Barbara Baird

Anak mula keto 'It was always thus.' Women Making Progress, Encountering Limits in Characterising the Mask
Carmencita Palermo

Fighting Bodies: The Construction of the Female Body in an Indonesian Television Serial
Sri Kusumo Habsari

Berbagi Suami (Love for Share): The Discourse of Polygamy in a Recent Indonesian Film
Novi Kurnia

Women, Gendered Activism and Indonesia's Anti-Pornography Bill
Pamela Allen

'It's the Matter of a Piece of Paper': Between Legitimation and Legalisation of Marriage and Divorce in Bugis Society
Nurul Ilmi Idrus

Eating Together: Navigating Commensality in Expatriate Households Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
Rosslyn von der Borch

Anti-trafficking Measures and Migrant Sex Workers in Australia
Elena Jeffreys

Rey Ventura
Into the Country of Standing Men
reviewed by Greg Dvorak

J. Neil C. Garcia
Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM
reviewed by Gwénola Ricordeau

Anne E. Mclaren
Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China
reviewed by Vibeke Børdahl

Dina Lowy
The Japanese 'New Woman': Images of Gender and Modernity
reviewed by Lauren DeCarvalho

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