Domestication of Desire. Women, Wealth and Modernity in Java.
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1998. Stock ID #180081 "While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth century. Focusing on this community, Brenner examines what she calls the making of the "unmodern."" (Publisher's description). When referring to this item please quote stockid 180081.
Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 301pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, prior owner's details half title page, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good paperback copy.
Price: $40.00 AU