Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java

Ann R. Tickamyer is a professor of rural sociology and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Pennsylvania State University. She is the coeditor of Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts, also from Ohio University Press. Siti Kusujiarti is a professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina. She is the author of numerous publications on rural poverty, inequality, gender, work, and development.

"(Tickamyer and Kusujiarti) provide a captivating insider/outsider perspective on everyday life and social change in two Central Javanese villages. Based on quantitative and qualitative fieldwork from the mid-1990s up till 2010, their book should become the essential source for understanding gender in rural Java." (Inside Indonesia) "Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java is an important book in the area of gender and development. It provides thoughtful insight into how women in various developing countries are involved in contradictory gender roles and how this 'contradiction is endured, reproduced, and perpetuated.' As an important scholarly contribution, it will be useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in gender, development, and social change." (Rural Sociology) "By conducting semi-structured interviews in the same villages and with many of the same individuals for more than 20 years, the authors have rich and varied data that are analyzed and presented in a variety of ways in order to characterize and probe perceptions and experiences of gender…. The historical and analytical detail provided in this book will be of particular interest to scholars of southeast Asian social and political changes, as the authors paint a dynamic picture of the myriad influences on gender ideas and roles in Java and Indonesia." (Contemporary Sociology)