Southeast asia since early modern times by michael g peletz this article develops the concept of gender pluralism to analyze historical and ethnographicmaterial 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 . Gender pluralism southeast asia since early modern times ebook michael g peletz amazonca kindle store. As such the thesis that gender pluralism in southeast asia has constricted since early modern times needs constant qualification. Gender pluralism southeast asia since early modern times. This book examines pluralism in gendered fields and domains in southeast asia since the early modern era which historians and anthropologists of the region commonly define as the period extending roughly from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries