Back Door Java - State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java

"An important contribution to studies of gender and the state in Southeast Asia, this eminently readable book is at once engaging and profound." - Mary Steedly, Harvard University

List of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Through the Missing Back Door, an Entrance

Chapter Two: Kampung

Chapter Three: The House

Chapter Four: The Household: Making Do

Chapter Five: The Home

Chapter Six: Through the Back Door of Domesticity: An Exit

Epilogue: Housewife Ethnographer

References

Index

About the author

By Jan Newberry

Summary

"An important contribution to studies of gender and the state in Southeast Asia, this eminently readable book is at once engaging and profound." - Mary Steedly, Harvard University

Product details

• Authors: Janice Newberry
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781551116891
• ISBN: 978-1-55111-689-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics