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

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

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

Title remainder

women, wealth, and modernity in Java

Statement of responsibility

Suzanne April Brenner

Language

eng

Summary

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." 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

Cataloging source

QCL

Dewey number

306/.09598/2

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

index present

LC call number

GN635.I65

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

GN635.I65

NAL item number

(INTERNET)

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

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