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Laurie J. Sears is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is author of Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales, also published by Duke University Press.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fragile Identities: Deconstructing Women and Indonesia / Laurie J. Sears
Part I: Structures of Control
Models and Maniacs: Articulating the Female in Indonesia / Sylvia Tiwon
A Sentimental Education: Native Servants and the Cultivation of European Children in the Netherlands Indies / Ann Laura Stoler
The State and Sexuality in New Order Indonesia / Julia I. Suryakusuma
Murder, Gender, and the Media: Sexualizing Politics and Violence / Saraswati Sunindyo
Javanese Factory Daughters: Gender, the State, and Industrial Capitalism / Diane L. Wolfe
Quizzing the Sphinx: Reflections on Mortality in Central Sulawesi / Jane Monnig Atkinson
On the Other Hand? / Daniel S. Lev
Part II: Contested Representations
Sex Wars: Writing Gender Relations in Nineteenth-Century Java / Nancy K. Florida
Nyai Dasima: Portrait of a Mistress in Literature and Film / Jean Gelman Taylor
A Feminist Comment on the Sinetron Presentation of Indonesian Women / Sita Aripurnami
Gender and Sexual Orientation in Indonesia / Dédé Oetomo
"Bullshit!" S/He Said: The Happy, Modern, Sexy, Indonesian Married Woman as Transsexual / Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
Alien Romance / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the author
Laurie J. Sears is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is author of Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales, also published by Duke University Press.
Summary
Includes stories of Indonesian women that have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia.
