Showing The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java by Suzanne April Brenner
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The Domestication of Desire Focuses on Laweyan, a production center of batik textiles that had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of Indonesia during the twentieth century. This book portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its forms of social life and highlights the power of women in the marketplace and the home. Full description
Important places
- Surakarta (4)
Regions
- Jawa Tengah (70)
Countries
- Indonesia (484)
Other geographical areas
- Java (88)
- Greater Sunda Islands (317)
- Malay Archipelago (1,007)
- South-Eastern Asia (2,613)