Maila Stivens

Matriliny and Modernity

Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia

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Produktbeschreibung

Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores from a feminist anthropological viewpoint the links between gender and the remakings past and present of the matrilineal system of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032600253
• ISBN-10: 103260025X
• Artikelnr.: 72655866

Autorenporträt

Maila Stivens is Principal Research Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Previously Director of Gender Studies at Melbourne, she studied anthropology at the London School of Economics, and has also taught at University College, London, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as holding fellowships at NUS and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She has published widely on her research which has included studies of middle-class kinship in Sydney; 'matriliny', gender relations and modernity, and work and family in Malaysia; childhood in Southeast Asia; 'family values'; and, latterly, asylum seeker issues in Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Modern Malaysian Matriliny. 1. People and Places 2. Past
and Present I: Gender and the Remaking of Adat Perpatih 3. Past and Present
II: Gender and the Remaking of Rembau Peasant Economy 4. Gender and a
Marginal Village Economy I: Women of Property 5. Gender and a Marginal
Village Economy II: Local Production and Income 6. Gender, Work and
Inequality in Rembau 7. Rembau Femininities 8. Modernising Kinship and
Family in Contemporary Rembau. Conclusion: Female Autonomy in Rembau?