Governing Nonconformity: Gender Presentation, Public Space, and the City in New Order Indonesia

The regulation of public space is generative of new approaches to gender nonconformity. In 1968 in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a group of people who identified as wadam—a new term made by combining parts of Indonesian words denoting “femininity” and “masculinity”—made a claim to the city'...

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Published in:	The Journal of Asian studies Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 955 - 974
Main Author:	Hegarty, Benjamin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.11.2021 Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects:	Acknowledgment Anxiety Asian studies Cities Conformity Ethnography Femininity Gender Gender nonconforming Governors Innovations Masculinity Morality Public nuisance Public spaces Recognition Regulation Transgender persons Women Jakarta Indonesia Indonesia belonging cities citizenship the body waria nonconformity space transgender Indonesia
ISSN:	0021-9118, 1752-0401
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