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Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia

Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia

Formichi, Chiara

Hardcover

General Gender StudiesGeneral World HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1503635244
ISBN13: 9781503635241
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. While sidelined in the Dutch colonial project of hygienic modernity, women's labor of social reproduction became increasingly visible. Women from all walks of life were called upon to fulfill domestic and motherly roles for the production and socialization of laborers, soldiers, and citizens. The medicalization of cleanliness, intersecting with multiple patriarchal orders, marginalized women's traditional influence and knowledge. However, leveraging the critical importance of infant care, cleanliness, and nutrition, women pushed against the boundaries imposed on them by the colonial and postcolonial state.

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