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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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1998.
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Collection: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Table des matières:
- 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.