Suzanne Brenner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Brenner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Brenner |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023
The ethics of marriage in American evangelicalism
The idea that marriage should be treated as a site of pious ethical work is widespread in conservative Christian discourse. This article considers how and why conservative American evangelicals have come to regard the everyday routines of heterosexual marriage as potential forms of religious labour that can cultivate robust Christian subjectivities along with successful conjugal relationships. It argues that the notion of pious marital work was s…
The Domestication of Desire
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 this community, Brenner examines what she calls the makin…
Private Moralities in the Public Sphere
Over the past two decades, Indonesia has been transformed socially and politically by two major movements: the Islamic movement and the democratization movement. One point of convergence between these two movements has been a strong concern with establishing moral ascendancy over the perceived immorality of the previous regime and with building a new moral order as the foundation of a democratic nation. In this article, I examine how issues of ge…
Democracy, Polygamy, and Women in Post-Reformasi Indonesia
In July 2003, a lavish award ceremony was held at a five-star hotel in Jakarta. At the Polygamy Awards, as it was called, the financial sponsor and master of ceremonies, a wealthy entrepreneur named Puspo Wardoyo, handed out awards to several dozen Indonesian men who, in the view of the selection committee, had upheld the high moral and religious standards needed to be a successful polygamist. The idea of the ceremony was to bring polygamy and it…
"Hierarchy and the "Unmodern
On the Public Intimacy of the New Order
I]t indeed appears that 1959 will be a very important year for all aspects of life in our society, including household matters, which in the past were always seen as trivial, receiving little attention either from the people themselves or from the Government. The revolutionary spirit that pervades all of society should also touch the affairs of the household, which must be improved in a revolutionary manner as well. In this way we will be able to…
Reconstructing Self and Society
In Java the growing trend among women toward wearing Islamic clothing ("veiling") challenges local traditions as well as Western models of modernity. Analysis of Javanese women's narratives of "conversion" to veiling against the background of the contemporary Islamic movement reveals that veiling represents both a new historical consciousness and a process of subjective transformation that is tied to larger processes of social change in Indonesia…
Hanging Without a Rope
Anthropology, History, and Indonesia
Book reviewed in this article: The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period . Leonard Y. Andaya. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. 306 pp. Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture, and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia . Joel S. Kahn. Providence: Berg Publishers, 1993. 314 pp
Competing Hierarchies
Everyone wants to be priyayi.The ones who are already priyayi want to become even more priyayi.The rich ones want to be richer.The ones with rank want higher rank.All of them are priyayi.Rank, wealth, title, that's what being priyayi is about.Any one of those alone, that's priyayi.Not to mention all three of them at once.Pre pare yourself, my daughter.The time has come."-Arswendo Atmowiloto, Canting (1986)The eighth month of the Islamic-Javanese …
Reconstructing Self and Society
In Java the growing trend among women toward wearing Islamic clothing ("veiling") challenges local traditions as well as Western models of modernity. Analysis of Javanese women's narratives of "conversion" to veiling against the background of the contemporary Islamic movement reveals that veiling represents both a new historical consciousness and a process of subjective transformation that is tied to larger processes of social change in Indonesia…
Private Moralities in the Public Sphere
Over the past two decades, Indonesia has been transformed socially and politically by two major movements: the Islamic movement and the democratization movement. One point of convergence between these two movements has been a strong concern with establishing moral ascendancy over the perceived immorality of the previous regime and with building a new moral order as the foundation of a democratic nation. In this article, I examine how issues of ge…
The Domestication of Desire
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 this community, Brenner examines what she calls the makin…
On the Public Intimacy of the New Order
I]t indeed appears that 1959 will be a very important year for all aspects of life in our society, including household matters, which in the past were always seen as trivial, receiving little attention either from the people themselves or from the Government. The revolutionary spirit that pervades all of society should also touch the affairs of the household, which must be improved in a revolutionary manner as well. In this way we will be able to…
Competing Hierarchies
Everyone wants to be priyayi.The ones who are already priyayi want to become even more priyayi.The rich ones want to be richer.The ones with rank want higher rank.All of them are priyayi.Rank, wealth, title, that's what being priyayi is about.Any one of those alone, that's priyayi.Not to mention all three of them at once.Pre pare yourself, my daughter.The time has come."-Arswendo Atmowiloto, Canting (1986)The eighth month of the Islamic-Javanese …
Hanging Without a Rope
The ethics of marriage in American evangelicalism
The idea that marriage should be treated as a site of pious ethical work is widespread in conservative Christian discourse. This article considers how and why conservative American evangelicals have come to regard the everyday routines of heterosexual marriage as potential forms of religious labour that can cultivate robust Christian subjectivities along with successful conjugal relationships. It argues that the notion of pious marital work was s…
Competing Hierarchies
Everyone wants to be priyayi.The ones who are already priyayi want to become even more priyayi.The rich ones want to be richer.The ones with rank want higher rank.All of them are priyayi.Rank, wealth, title, that's what being priyayi is about.Any one of those alone, that's priyayi.Not to mention all three of them at once.Pre pare yourself, my daughter.The time has come."-Arswendo Atmowiloto, Canting (1986)The eighth month of the Islamic-Javanese …
Anthropology, History, and Indonesia
Book reviewed in this article: The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period . Leonard Y. Andaya. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. 306 pp. Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture, and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia . Joel S. Kahn. Providence: Berg Publishers, 1993. 314 pp
Hanging Without a Rope
Reconstructing Self and Society
In Java the growing trend among women toward wearing Islamic clothing ("veiling") challenges local traditions as well as Western models of modernity. Analysis of Javanese women's narratives of "conversion" to veiling against the background of the contemporary Islamic movement reveals that veiling represents both a new historical consciousness and a process of subjective transformation that is tied to larger processes of social change in Indonesia…
On the Public Intimacy of the New Order
I]t indeed appears that 1959 will be a very important year for all aspects of life in our society, including household matters, which in the past were always seen as trivial, receiving little attention either from the people themselves or from the Government. The revolutionary spirit that pervades all of society should also touch the affairs of the household, which must be improved in a revolutionary manner as well. In this way we will be able to…
"Hierarchy and the "Unmodern
Democracy, Polygamy, and Women in Post-Reformasi Indonesia
In July 2003, a lavish award ceremony was held at a five-star hotel in Jakarta. At the Polygamy Awards, as it was called, the financial sponsor and master of ceremonies, a wealthy entrepreneur named Puspo Wardoyo, handed out awards to several dozen Indonesian men who, in the view of the selection committee, had upheld the high moral and religious standards needed to be a successful polygamist. The idea of the ceremony was to bring polygamy and it…
Private Moralities in the Public Sphere
Over the past two decades, Indonesia has been transformed socially and politically by two major movements: the Islamic movement and the democratization movement. One point of convergence between these two movements has been a strong concern with establishing moral ascendancy over the perceived immorality of the previous regime and with building a new moral order as the foundation of a democratic nation. In this article, I examine how issues of ge…
The Domestication of Desire
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 this community, Brenner examines what she calls the makin…
The ethics of marriage in American evangelicalism
The idea that marriage should be treated as a site of pious ethical work is widespread in conservative Christian discourse. This article considers how and why conservative American evangelicals have come to regard the everyday routines of heterosexual marriage as potential forms of religious labour that can cultivate robust Christian subjectivities along with successful conjugal relationships. It argues that the notion of pious marital work was s…
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023
Asian Studies and History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works)