Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in South Bali. These are accounts of gang warfare, bodies, and violence which speak to the dreams, aspirations, and failures of a generation of young men in contemporary Indonesia.

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Matteo Carlo Alcano is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

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Book Title: Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work between East Java and Bali
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of Youth, Bodies, and Violence
Authors: Matteo Carlo Alcano
Series Title: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541468
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54145-1Published: 17 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54146-8Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-7491
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7505
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 197
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Migration, Development Studies, Cultural Anthropology

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Men’s Things and Male Activities

Growing Up in Surabaya: Youth, Street Gangs, the City, and Beyond

Male Sex Work in South Bali: Bodies, Violence, and Entrepreneurship

After Sex Work: Immobility and Bonds of Dependence

Conclusions

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