It also questions the effects on women of recent changes to the state, such as Indonesia’s transition to democracy and the election of its first female president. The book investigates the outcomes of these mutual claims and the power of the state and the women’s movement in improving women’s lives. The state, for its part, is shown attempting to control women.
Voices from the women’s movement resound in these pages, posing demands such as education for girls and reform of marriage laws. In the first study of the kind, Susan Blackburn examines how Indonesian women have engaged with the state since they began to organise a century ago.
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