Women and Households in Indonesia

Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg, Ratna Saptari

1. Food for Thought: Reflections on the Conference and the Set-up of this Book 2. Women, Family and Household: Tensions in Culture and Practice SECTION II: DOMINANT NOTIONS OF FAMILY AND THE HOUSEHOLD 3. Colonial Ambivalences: European Attitudes towards the Javanese Household ( 1900-1942) 4. Representations of Women's Roles in Household and Society in Indonesian Women's Writing of the 1930s 5. Reconstructing Boundaries and Beyond 6. Beyond Women and the Household in Java: Re-examining the Boundaries SECTION III: CHALLENGING THE HOUSEHOLD CONCEPT 7. Houses, People and Residence: The Fluidity of Ambonese Living Arrangements 8. Bitter Honey: Female Agency and the Polygynous Household, North Bali 9. The Salty Mouth of a Senior Woman: Gender and the House in Minangkabau SECTION IV: Mobility, DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS AND FAMILY LIFE 10. Different Times, Different Orientations: Family Life in a Javanese Village 1 1. Negotiating Gender, Kinship and Livelihood Practices in an Indonesian Transmigration Area 12. Staying Behind: Conflict and Compromise in Tuba Batak Migration SECTION V: BEYOND THE DICHOTOMIES 13. Women's Networks in Cloth Production and Exchange in Flores 14. Networks of Reproduction among Cigarette Factory Women in East Java 15. Hidden Managers at Home: Elite Javanese Women Running New Order Family Firms