Housewives

From 1900-1972, housewife organizations in the Netherlands Indies and Indonesia assisted the population of the archipelago in adapting to the political upheaval that attended Indonesia's national liberation from the Netherlands. Under the Ethical Policy (1900-1942), the Associat…

This dissertation is based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban, working class neighborhood or kampung. Research concentrated on the work of women as housewives and mothers within the community and specifically on their roles within the national housewives organiza…