Women and Work in Indonesia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ford, Michele; Parker, Lyn

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With chapters written by Indonesian scholars and based upon extensive fieldwork experience in Indonesia, this is an important and fascinating examination of the meaning of work for women in modern Indonesia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134142354
• Artikelnr.: 42975871

Autorenporträt

Michele Ford chairs the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she teaches Indonesian language and Asian Studies. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement, labour migration in Southeast Asia, and women and work. Lyn Parker is Associate Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia. She teaches Asian Studies and Anthropology, Indonesian and Women's Studies. Her main research interests are gender relations in Indonesia and Asia, the anthropology of women and the nation-state, education and health.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Thinking About Indonesian Women and Work Michele Ford and Lyn
Parker 1. Not your Average Housewife: Minangkabau Women Rice Farmers in
West Sumatra Evelyn Blackwood 2. Keeping Rice in the Pot: Women and Work in
a Transmigration Settlement Gaynor Dawson 3. Dukun and Bidan: The Work of
Traditional and Government Midwives in Southeast Sulawesi Simone Alesich
4. Poverty, Opportunity and Purity in Paradise: Women Working in Lombok's
Tourist Hotels Linda Rae Bennett 5. Industrial Workers in Transition:
Women's Experiences of Factory Work in Tangerang Nicholaas Warouw 6. Bodies
in Contest: Gender Difference and Equity in a Coal Mine Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
and Kathryn Robinson 7. Meanings of Work for Female Media and Communication
Workers Pam Nilan and Prahastiwi Utari 8. Makkunrai Passimokolo': Bugis
Migrant Women Workers in Malaysia Nurul Ilmi Idrus 9. Making the Best of
What You've Got: Sex Work and Class Mobility in the Riau Islands Michele
Ford and Lenore Lyons 10. Straddling Worlds: Indonesian Migrant Domestic
Workers in Singapore Rosslyn von der Borch