Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices

by Koning,Juliette

• ISBN13: 9780700711567
• ISBN10: 0700711562
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-27
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Exploring in detail the position of women within and beyond domestic arrangements the text looks at the way in which women's agency finds different formats and functions at different levels.

Table of Contents

Contributors	viii
Preface	xii
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION	1	(25)
Food for Thought: Reflections on the Conference and the Set-up of this Book	3	(7)
Marleen Nolten
Women, Family and Household: Tensions in Culture and Practice	10	(16)
Ratna Saptari
SECTION II: DOMINANT NOTIONS OF FAMILY AND THE HOUSEHOLD	26	(75)
Colonial Ambivalencies: European Attitudes towards the Javanese Household (1900-1942)	28	(17)
Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Representations of Women's Roles in Household and Society in Indonesian Women's Writing of the 1930s	45	(23)
Barbara Hatley
Susan Blackburn
Reconstructing Boundaries and Beyond	68	(17)
Sylvia Tiwon
Beyond Women and the Household in Java: Re-examining the Boundaries	85	(16)
Diane Wolf
SECTION III: CHALLENGING THE HOUSEHOLD CONCEPT	101	(79)
Houses, People and Residence: The Fluidity of Ambonese Living Arrangements	102	(40)
Keebet
Franz von Benda-Beckmann
Bitter Honey: Female Agency and the Polygynous Household, North Bali	142	(21)
Megan Jennaway
The Salty Mouth of a Senior Woman: Gender and the House in Minangkabau	163	(17)
Joke van Reenen
SECTION IV: MOBILITY, DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS AND FAMILY LIFE	180	(82)
Different Times, Different Orientations: Family Life in a Javanese Village	181	(27)
Juliette Koning
Negotiating Gender, Kinship and Livelihood Practices in an Indonesian Transmigration Area	208	(27)
Becky Elmhirst
Staying Behind: Conflict and Compromise in Toba Batak Migration	235	(27)
Janet Rodenburg
SECTION V: BEYOND THE DICHOTOMIES	262	(53)
Women's Networks in Cloth Production and Exchange in Flores	264	(17)
Willemijn de Jong
Networks of Reproduction among Cigarette Factory Women in East Java	281	(18)
Ratna Saptari
Hidden Managers at Home: Elite Javanese Women Running New Order Family Firms	299	(16)
G.G. Weix
Bibliography	315	(30)
Glossary	345	(5)
Overview of the papers presented at the WIVS conference	350	(2)
Index	352