The Domestication of Desire:
Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java
Suzanne April Brenner

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Figures
	Acknowledgments
	A Note on the Use of Foreign Terms and Proper Names
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	A Neighborhood Comes of Age	24
Ch. 2	Hierarchy and Contradiction: Merchants and Aristocrats in Colonial Java	52
Ch. 3	The Specter of Past Modernities	87
Ch. 4	Gender and the Domestication of Desire	134
Ch. 5	The Value of the Bequest: Spiritual Economies and Ancestral Commodities	171
Ch. 6	The Mask of Appearances: Disorder in the New Order	206
Ch. 7	Disciplining the Domestic Sphere, Developing the Modern Family	225
	Notes	255
	Glossary	281
	Bibliography	283
	Index	295

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