Gender Relations in an Indonesian Society

Nurul Ilmi Idrus is Professor of Anthropology at Hasanuddin University, Indonesia. She has published a number of articles on Indonesia, including ‘Dissolution of Marriage: Gender, State and Islam in Contemporary Bugis Society in South Sulawesi, Indonesia’ in Intersections 30 (2012).

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceList of Maps, Tables, Plates, and DiagramsChapter I: IntroductionChapter II: Siri’, Gender and SexualityChapter III: Asseajingeng: Marriage, Family and Social StatusChapter IV: Assikalaibinéngeng: The Couple, the House and the HouseholdChapter V: Beliefs and Sexual Manners: Islam, Lontara’ and Everyday PracticesChapter VI: Marriage, Divorce and Reconciliation: between Islamic Court and Customary LawChapter VII: Family Dynamics in Urban Life: Violence, Media and the StateChapter VIII: The Ethnography of Marriage: Understanding Bugis Domestic LifeAppendicesGlossaryAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex