Matriliny and Modernity - Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia

Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores from a feminist anthropological viewpoint the links between gender and the remakings past and present of the matrilineal system of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.

List of contents

Introduction: A Modern Malaysian Matriliny. 1. People and Places 2. Past and Present I: Gender and the Remaking of Adat Perpatih 3. Past and Present II: Gender and the Remaking of Rembau Peasant Economy 4. Gender and a Marginal Village Economy I: Women of Property 5. Gender and a Marginal Village Economy II: Local Production and Income 6. Gender, Work and Inequality in Rembau 7. Rembau Femininities 8. Modernising Kinship and Family in Contemporary Rembau. Conclusion: Female Autonomy in Rembau?

About the author

Maila Stivens is Principal Research Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Previously Director of Gender Studies at Melbourne, she studied anthropology at the London School of Economics, and has also taught at University College, London, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as holding fellowships at NUS and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She has published widely on her research which has included studies of middle-class kinship in Sydney; 'matriliny', gender relations and modernity, and work and family in Malaysia; childhood in Southeast Asia; 'family values'; and, latterly, asylum seeker issues in Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Maila Stivens, Stivens Maila
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032600253
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260025-3
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social & cultural history, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, South East Asia, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups