Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. CITY GARBAGE FROM THE NONGO RIVER xiii
5. INTRODUCTION: FRAGILE IDENTITIES Deconstructing Women and Indonesia 1
6. PART I Structures of Control
7. MODELS AND MANIACS Articulating the Female in Indonesia 47
8. A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION Native Servants and the Cultivation of European Children in the Netherlands Indies 71
9. THE STATE AND SEXUALITY IN NEW ORDER INDONESIA 92
10. MURDER, GENDER, AND THE MEDIA Sexualizing Politics and Violence 120
11. JAVANESE FACTORY DAUGHTERS Gender, the State, and Industrial Capitalism 140
12. QUIZZING THE SPHINX Reflections on Mortality in Central Sulawesi 163
13. ON THE OTHER HAND? 191
14. PA RT II Contested Representations
15. SEX WARS Writing Gender Relations in Nineteenth-Century Java 207
16. NYAI DASIMA Portrait of a Mistress in Literature and Film 225
17. A FEMINIST COMMENT ON THE SINETRON PRESENTATION OF INDONESIAN WOMEN 249
18. GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN INDONESIA 259
19. "BULLSHIT!" S/HE SAID The Happy, Modern, Sexy, Indonesian Married Woman as Transsexual 270
20. ALIEN ROMANCE 295
21. Selected Bibliography 319
22. Contributors 335
23. Index 339