Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg, Ratna Saptari

Women and Households in Indonesia

Cultural Notions and Social Practices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critically examines the usefulness of the 'household; concept within the historically and culturally diverse context of Indonesia, exploring in detail the position of women within and beyond domestic arrangements. So far, classical household and kinship studies have not studied how women deal with two major forces which shape and define their world: local kinship traditions, and the universalising ideology of the Indonesian regime, which both provide prescriptions and prohibitions concerning family, marriage, and womanhood. Women are caught between these conflicting notions and practices. How they challenge or accommodate such forces is the main issue in this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780700711567
• ISBN-10: 0700711562
• Artikelnr.: 21468602

Autorenporträt

Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg, Ratna Saptari

Inhaltsangabe

1. Food for Thought: Reflections on the Conference and the Set-up of this
Book 2. Women, Family and Household: Tensions in Culture and Practice
SECTION II: DOMINANT NOTIONS OF FAMILY AND THE HOUSEHOLD 3. Colonial
Ambivalences: European Attitudes towards the Javanese Household (
1900-1942) 4. Representations of Women's Roles in Household and Society in
Indonesian Women's Writing of the 1930s 5. Reconstructing Boundaries and
Beyond 6. Beyond Women and the Household in Java: Re-examining the
Boundaries SECTION III: CHALLENGING THE HOUSEHOLD CONCEPT 7. Houses, People
and Residence: The Fluidity of Ambonese Living Arrangements 8. Bitter
Honey: Female Agency and the Polygynous Household, North Bali 9. The Salty
Mouth of a Senior Woman: Gender and the House in Minangkabau SECTION IV:
Mobility, DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS AND FAMILY LIFE 10. Different Times,
Different Orientations: Family Life in a Javanese Village 1 1. Negotiating
Gender, Kinship and Livelihood Practices in an Indonesian Transmigration
Area 12. Staying Behind: Conflict and Compromise in Tuba Batak Migration
SECTION V: BEYOND THE DICHOTOMIES 13. Women's Networks in Cloth Production
and Exchange in Flores 14. Networks of Reproduction among Cigarette Factory
Women in East Java 15. Hidden Managers at Home: Elite Javanese Women
Running New Order Family Firms