| | | Contributors | | |
| | | Preface | | |
| 1 | | Food for Thought: Reflections on the Conference and the Set-up of this Book by Marleen Nolten | | 3 |
| 2 | | Women, Family and Household: Tensions in Culture and Practice by Ratna Saptari | | 10 |
| 3 | | Colonial Ambivalencies: European Attitudes towards the Javanese Household (1900-1942) by Elsbeth Locher-Scholten | | 28 |
| 4 | | Representations of Womens Roles in Household and Society in Indonesian Womens Writing of the 1930s by Barbara Hatley and Susan Blackburn | | 45 |
| 5 | | Reconstructing Boundaries and Beyond by Sylvia Tiwon | | 68 |
| 6 | | Beyond Women and the Household in Java: Re-examining the Boundaries by Diane Wolf | | 85 |
| 7 | | Houses, People and Residence: The Fluidity of Ambonese Living Arrangements by Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Franz von Benda-Beckmann | | 102 |
| 8 | | Bitter Honey: Female Agency and the Polygynous Household, North Bali by Megan Jennaway | | 142 |
| 9 | | The Salty Mouth of a Senior Woman: Gender and the House in Minangkabau by Joke van Reenen | | 163 |
| 10 | | Different Times, Different Orientations: Family Life in a Javanese Village by Juliette Koning | | 181 |
| 11 | | Negotiating Gender, Kinship and Livelihood Practices in an Indonesian Transmigration Area by Becky Elmhirst | | 208 |
| 12 | | Staying Behind: Conflict and Compromise in Toba Batak Migration by Janet Rodenburg | | 235 |
| 13 | | Womens Networks in Cloth Production and Exchange in Flores by Willemijn de Jong | | 264 |
| 14 | | Networks of Reproduction among Cigarette Factory Women in East Java by Ratna Saptari | | 281 |
| 15 | | Hidden Managers at Home: Elite Javanese Women Running New Order Family Firms by G. G. Weix | | 299 |
| | | Bibliography | | 315 |
| | | Glossary | | 345 |
| | | Overview of the papers presented at the WIVS conference | | 350 |
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