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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brenner, Suzanne April, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A neighborhood comes of age
  • Hierarchy and contradiction: merchants and aristocrats in colonial java
  • The specter of past modernities
  • Gender and the domestication of desire
  • The value of the bequest: spiritual economies and ancestral commodities
  • The mask of appearances: disorder in the new order
  • Disciplining the dcomestic sphere, developing the modern family.