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The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations - reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature - have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia.
Presenting dialogues between prominent scholars of and from Indonesia and Indonesian women working in professional, activist, religious, and literary domains, the book dissolves essentialist notions of "women" and "Indonesia" that have arisen out of the tensions of empire.
The contributors examine the ways in which Indonesian women and men are enmeshed in networks of power and then pursue the stories of those who, sometimes at great political risk, challenge these powers. In this juxtaposition of voices and stories, we see how indigenous patriarchal fantasies of feminine behavior merged with Dutch colonial notions of proper wives and mothers to produce the Indonesian government's present approach to controlling the images and actions of women.
Facing the theoretical challenge of building a truly cross-cultural feminist analysis, Fantasizing the Feminine takes us into an ongoing conversation that reveals the contradictions of postcolonial positioning and the fragility of postmodern identities.
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Fantasizing the feminine in Indonesia
1996, Duke University Press
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0822316846 9780822316848
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-334) and index.
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