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

Brenner, Suzanne April

Princeton: Princeton University Press 2012

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  • Título:
    The domestication of desire: women, wealth, and modernity in Java
  • Autor: Brenner, Suzanne April
  • Assuntos: Anthropology ; Ethnology ; Indonesia ; Social change ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Surakarta ; Surakarta (Indonesia) ; Women
  • Notas: ACLS Humanities E-Book
    Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text.
    This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
    University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing
    Ann Arbor, Mich.
    Electronic text and image data.
    Mode of access: Intranet.
    2006.
  • Descrição: 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 the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth century. Focusing on this community, Brenner examines what she calls the making of the "unmodern." She portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its distinctive forms of social life and highlights the unique power of women in the marketplace and the home--two domains closely linked to each other through local economies of production and exchange. Against the social, political, and economic developments of late-colonial and postcolonial Java, Brenner describes how an innovative, commercially successful lifestyle became an anachronism in Indonesian society, thereby challenging the idea that tradition invariably gives way to modernity in an evolutionary progression. Brenner's analysis centers on the importance of gender to processes of social transformation. In Laweyan, the base of economic and social power has shifted from families, in which women were the main producers of wealth and cultural value, to the Indonesian state, which has worked to reorient families toward national political agendas. How such attempts affect women's lives and the meaning of the family itself are key considerations as Brenner questions long-held assumptions about the division between "domestic" and "public" spheres in modern society.
  • Editor: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2012
  • Formato: 319
  • Idioma: Inglês
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