Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices

Abstract

A theoretical overview the Javanese household in 20th-century colonial eyes women, household and marriage in Indonesia in the 1930s state definitions of the family and household perception of scholars on Javanese households the salty mouth of a senior woman co-residentiality as an important basis for social relations bitter honey impact of urban life on (rural) household consumption expenditures and ideologies household decision-making and the daughter's employment in a transmigration area structure and agency in the context of male migration the role of women in cloth production and exchange shifting household boundaries among women factory workers elite Javanese women's patronage.