| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Series |
ASAA Women in Asia Series, 9 |
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ASAA Women in Asia Series, 9
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Note on translations and spelling; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; Part I Legal contexts of divorce; 1 Gender and law: Shaping female legal subjectivity; 2 Divorce, property relations and power; Part II Discourses of divorce; 3 Divorce and shame; 4 Marital rights and obligations; Part III Implications of divorce; 5 Women's agency: Acquiescence, co-optation and resistance; 6 Modernity, religion and nation: Divorce and the production of gendered identities; Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing especially on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005. It shows how regulation was an important tool of social control by the New Order regime, and explores how state power was contested and co-opted by men and women |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203883983 |
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0203883985 |
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