Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java

by Jan Newberry

In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local ideas of community cooperation and support, but also on the Indonesian government's use of women as unpaid social workers. Consequently, women are a pivotal point in both state-sponsored programs of domesticity and in the local practice of community exchange...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551116898
• ISBN13: 9781551116891
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"