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The Domestication of Desire : Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java /

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 t...

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Autor principal: Brenner, Suzanne April (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Edición:Course Book
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A NOTE ON THE USE OF FOREIGN TERMS AND PROPER NAMES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. A Neighborhood Comes of Age
  • CHAPTER TWO. Hierarchy and Contradiction: Merchants and Aristocrats in ColonialJava
  • CHAPTER THREE.1 The Specter of Past Modernities
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Gender and the Domestication of Desire
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Value of the Bequest: Spiritual Economies and AncestralCommodities
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Mask of Appearances: Disorder in the New Order
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Disciplining the Domestic Sphere, Developing the Modern F amily
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX