The domestication of desire : women, wealth, and modernity in Java /

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 t...

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Main Author: Brenner, Suzanne April, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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