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Women and Households in Indonesia Cultural Notions and Social Practices

Edited By Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg, Ratna Saptari Copyright 2000
    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    372 Pages
    by Routledge
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    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.

    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

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    Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg, Ratna Saptari

    'Is a welcome addition to the literature.' - Journal of Social Studies in Southeast Asia
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