1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784619003321

Autore

Brenner Suzanne April <1960->

Titolo

The domestication of desire : women, wealth, and modernity in Java / / Suzanne April Brenner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1998

ISBN

1-299-14907-3

1-4008-4391-X

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

306/.09598/2

Soggetti

Ethnology - Indonesia - Surakarta

Social change - Indonesia - Surakarta

Women - Indonesia - Surakarta

Surakarta (Indonesia) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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 Colonial Java -- 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 Ancestral Commodities -- CHAPTER SIX. The Mask of Appearances: Disorder in the New Order -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Disciplining the Domestic Sphere, Developing the Modern Family -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980's, 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." She portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its distinctive



forms of social life and highlights the unique power of women in the marketplace and the home--two domains closely linked to each other through local economies of production and exchange. 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. In Laweyan, the base of economic and social power has shifted from families, in which women were the main producers of wealth and cultural value, to the Indonesian state, which has worked to reorient families toward national political agendas. How such attempts affect women's lives and the meaning of the family itself are key considerations as Brenner questions long-held assumptions about the division between "domestic" and "public" spheres in modern society.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828890203321

Autore

Conklin Wendy

Titolo

Getting ready for third grade / / author, Wendy Conklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Huntington Beach, California : , : Shell Education, , [2016]

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Summer blast

Disciplina

372.13

Soggetti

Education, Primary - Activity programs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia