The politics of gender in a time of change: gender discourses, institutions, and identities in contemporary Indonesia

Thesis

This dissertation fundamentally explores the nature of change, and the development interventions that aim to bring this change into a particular society. What emerges is the notion of a ‘spiral’: imagining the dynamic relationship between paradigms and discourses, the institutions and programmes operating in a place, and the way individual identities are constructed in intricate and contradictory ways. Within this spiral, discourse has power – ‘words matter’ – but equally significant is ho...

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Authors: Love, K

• Publication date: 2008
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: institutions; mainstreaming; modernity; government; development; change; reproductive health; gender; bodies; discourse; empowerment; policy; power; women
• Subjects: Local Government; Public Health; Households; Gender; Islam; Democratic government; Asia; Families,children and childcare; Women; Human smuggling and trafficking; Social anthropology; Organisational behaviour; Anthropology of policy; Governance and ethics; Philosophy,psychology and sociology of religion