Webs of Power: Women Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village

About this book

Webs of Power offers a fresh perspective on women in Southeast Asia. Although the book focuses on one village it provides vital insights into the gendered processes of postcoloniality. By exploring the contestations and accommodations being made in rural villages by both men and women "Webs of Power" reveals the processes at the heart of globalization as well as the complexities of power that circulate between women and men in a rural peasant society.