Women's ways of walking: Gender and urban space in Java

Abstract

Consider two images of gender and power in Indonesia and much of Southeast Asia: the market seller and the king.¹ These images, stereotypical and contradictory, represent the pervasive antinomies that have served to organize analysis of male and female roles within the household and beyond in Java. Careful attention to the lives of women and their movements through the dense urban neighborhoods known as kampung on the central island of the Indonesian archipelago reveal both the limits of these characterizations and some of the interesting reversals that occur based on class and community, especially the community as organized by the Indonesian government.

Citation

Newberry, J. (2008), "Women's ways of walking: Gender and urban space in Java", DeSena, J.N. (Ed.) Gender in an Urban World (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 77-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1047-0042(07)00004-9