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Women and Work in Indonesia (Paperback)
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Women and Work in Indonesia (Paperback)
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
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This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary
Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to
interrogate assumptions about work and economic activity, focusing
on what women themselves see as their work, which includes not only
paid employment, home life and child care, but also activities
surrounding ritual, healing and religious life. It analyses the key
issues, including the contrasts between 'new' and 'old' forms of
work, the relationship between experiences of migration and work,
and the ways in which religion - especially Islam - shapes
perceptions and practice of work. It discusses women's work in a
range of different settings, both rural and urban, and in different
locations, covering Sumatra, Bali, Lombok, Java, Sulawesi and
Kalimantan. A wide range of types of employment are considered:
agricultural labour, industrial work and new forms of work in the
tertiary sector such as media and tourism, demonstrating how
capitalism, globalization and local culture together produce
gendered patterns of work with particular statuses and identities.
It address the question of the meaning and valuing of women's
'traditional' work, be it agricultural labour, domestic work or
other kinds of reproductive labour, challenging assumptions of
women as 'only' mothers and housewives, and demonstrating how women
can negotiate new definitions of 'housewife' by mobilizing kinship
and village relations to transcend conventional categories such as
wage labour and the domestic sphere. Overall, this book is an
important study of the meaning of work for women in Indonesia.
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