Inner thought of Kartini, 1879-1904, heroine struggling for women's emancipation in Indonesia, on Islamic teachings.
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan catatan rute, cara jelajah, dan daya gerak feminis dalam kerja seni budaya yang bersumber dari kejamakan pengalaman di Indonesia. Wilayah pengetahuan yang dipetakan buku ini menjangkau ranah kerja produksi artistik di berbagai bidang seni sekaligus ranah kerja reproduktif (pengelolaan, perawatan, pengorganisasian, dan hal terkait lainnya). Tiga belas artikel dari lim…
Dalam bulan Februari 1967 kami ditahan. Saya disiksa begitu hebat hingga gigi-gigi saya rontok. Saya tak sadarkan diri selama tiga hari. Kemudia mereka menggali liang kubur dan akan menguburkan saya jika saya tidak mau menyebutkan nama dan alamat anggota lainnya."Sepeninggal pengakuan Sujinah, mantan pemimpin Gerwani ini hanyalah sekuku hitam dari kejinya penderitaan yang dialami oleh jutaan tr…
Part of McGraw-Hill's 'Explorations in World History' series, this brief and accessible volume presents a comparative survey of the early history of women from a global perspective. Each chapter, which can be read independently of the others, examines the experiences of women in one of seven civilizations typically covered in an introductory world history text: pre-agricultural societies, the A…
Istilah kesehatan fisik berarti suatu keadaan baik, artinya bebas dari sakit pada seluruh badan dan bagian-bagiannya. Sedangkan untuk mewujudkan atau mempertahankan kesehatan fisik itu, maka seseorang harus mau melaksanakan kredo Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat (PHBS). Implementasi kredo ini cukup banyak dan variatif, dari mulai mencuci tangan dengan sabun, mandi teratur, sikat gigi, pola makan…
On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young …
After teaching literature at three universities in Tehran (and being expelled or resigning in despair from each) Azar Nafisi picked seven of her best students and invited them to come to her home every week to discuss books. She and her students, all women, began to think of these classes as an escape from the reality of Iran's totalitarian theocracy; but the picture her book paints is of an es…
Buku ini bercerita mengenai awal mula kebangkitan gerakan perempuan di Indonesia, terutama pada masa awal abad ke-20. Studi Cora menjelaskan permasalahan perempuan di Indonesia yang berakar pada tiga ciri, yaitu sistem matrilineal, sistem patrilineal, dan sistem bilineal. Semua sistem kekerabatan itu bersintesis dengan Islam dan yang kemudian mereproduksi hukum yang mengatur perempuan dalam per…
The issues surrounding women, feminism and fundamentalism are currently being debated throughout the world at every level and by every segment of humanity. In this volume a broad spectrum of views and perspectives are presented. What the authors have in common, however, is that they all distance themselves from what is known today as ?secular fundamentalism?, an approach that claims that only s…
While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth century.
Focusing on t…
Since its inception in 1945, the Republic of Indonesia has experienced a series of profound social changes. The spread of schooling, the transformation of the economy, and the consolidation of a unified state have transformed the lives of Indonesian citizens. It is seldom recognized, however, that the most fundamental changes have occurred in the family sphere. Marriages that used to be arrange…
'Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature.' --Milan Kundera Of black Martinican provenance, Patrick Chamoiseau gives us Texaco (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize), an international literary achiev…
Buku ini bercerita mengenai awal mula kebangkitan gerakan perempuan di Indonesia, terutama pada masa awal abad ke-20. Studi Cora menjelaskan permasalahan perempuan di Indonesia yang berakar pada tiga ciri, yaitu sistem matrilineal, sistem patrilineal, dan sistem bilineal. Semua sistem kekerabatan itu bersintesis dengan Islam dan yang kemudian mereproduksi hukum yang mengatur perempuan dalam per…
Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. As she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year at the college in rac…
Critically lauded and an Oprah Book Club choice, Jonathan Franzen's third novel The Corrections is already a huge success in the US, and it's none too difficult to see why. Whereas his earlier novels, The Twenty-Seventh City and StrongMotion could be seen as single-issue works (on inner city decay and abortion respectively), the long-awaited The Corrections is far mo…
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. 'One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should...' she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology and a host of other disciplines to sh…