Evelyn Blackwood

Webs of Power

Women, Kin, and Community in a Sumatran Village

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Webs of Power offers a fresh perspective on women in Southeast Asia. Although the book focuses on one village, it provides vital insights into the gendered processes of post-coloniality. By exploring the contestations and accommodations being made in rural villages by both men and women, Webs of Power reveals the processes at the heart of globalization as well as the complexities of power that circulate between women and men in a rural peasant society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780847699117
• ISBN-10: 0847699110
• Artikelnr.: 21861860

Autorenporträt

Evelyn Blackwood is assistant professor in women's studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1 Introduction: Matriliny, Gender, and Power Chapter 2 2 Village
Currents in West Sumatra Chapter 3 3 Senior Women and Their Houses Chapter
4 4 National Discourses and Daughters' Desires Chapter 5 5 Senior Women and
Ceremonial Strategies Chapter 6 6 Ceremonial Practice and the Ideology of
Rank Chapter 7 7 Controlling Labor, Controlling Kin: Village Farm Relations
Chapter 8 8 The Politics of Power