Sisters and Lovers Women and Desire in Bali

This rich ethnography in a rural village in North Bali illuminates the construction of desire by exploring cultural practices regarding courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. The way these cornerstones of daily life are played out in the alternative arenas of tourism and illness highlight pervasive gender disparities in the expression of sexuality. By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires.

About the author

Megan Jennaway is an honorary research advisor, Department of Asian Languages and Studies, University of Queensland, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Jennaway Megan, Megan Jennaway
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 19.11.2002
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore
• EAN: 9780742518643
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1864-3
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions (packing): 14.9 x 22.7 x 1.9 cm
• Weight (packing): 404 g
• Series: Asian Voices
• Subjects: Bali, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Physical anthropology