Back Door Java : : State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java / / Janice Newberry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Newberry, Janice,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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 managed from individual houses. Back Door Java explores the everyday lives of ordinary urban Javanese from a new perspective on domestic space and the state. Using rich ethnographic description of a neighbourhood in Central Java, Newberry illuminates the ways in which state rule is intimately connected to the household and the community.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Through the Missing Back Door, an Entrance -- Chapter Two: Kampung -- Chapter Three: The House -- Chapter Four: The Household: Making Do -- Chapter Five: The Home -- Chapter Six: Through the Back Door of Domesticity: An Exit -- Epilogue: Housewife Ethnographer -- References -- Index