The domestication of desire : women, wealth, and modernity in Java

The domestication of desire : women, wealth, and modernity in Java / Suzanne April Brenner.

While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off t...

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Main Author: Brenner, Suzanne April, 1960- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Indonesia > Surakarta.
Social change > Indonesia > Surakarta.
Women > Indonesia > Surakarta.
Women.
women (female humans)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Surakarta (Indonesia) > Social conditions.
Ethnology
Social change
Social conditions
Women
Sozialer Wandel
Frau
Sociaal-economische verandering.
Inkomensverdeling.
Vrouwen.
Ethnologie > Indonésie > Surakarta.
Changement social > Indonésie > Surakarta.
Femmes > Indonésie > Surakarta.
Indonesia > Surakarta
Surakarta
Surakarta (Indonésie) > Conditions sociales.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A neighborhood comes of age
  • Hierarchy and contradiction: merchants and aristocrats in colonial java
  • The specter of past modernities
  • Gender and the domestication of desire
  • The value of the bequest: spiritual economies and ancestral commodities
  • The mask of appearances: disorder in the new order
  • Disciplining the dcomestic sphere, developing the modern family.

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