Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali (Asian Voices)
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Preview — Sisters and Lovers by Megan Jennaway. Women and Desire in Bali by Megan Jennaway. The Balinese devotion to their temples is both legendary and conspicuous, but the ways in which they enshrine their innermost desires have long been hidden.
Sisters and Lovers
This ethnography draws back the veil by focusing on the romantic experiences of women in a rural village Punyanwangi in North Bali from adolescence to maturity. Delving into the intensity of passion that exists just The Balinese devotion to their temples is both legendary and conspicuous, but the ways in which they enshrine their innermost desires have long been hidden.
Delving into the intensity of passion that exists just below the harmonious veneer of traditional patterns of courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity, this book overturns Margaret Mead's assertions of passivity in Balinese social life. Punyanwangi's proximity to a thriving tourist center allows Megan Jennaway to explore as well the striking gender disparities in the ways sexuality and desire are culturally mediated.
Aside from service work, women are excluded from entering the tourist domain, yet male sexual adventurism is expected and even encouraged. The bodies of foreign women are thus invested with potent fantasies of exotic desire, while those of local women are muted-denied legitimate avenues of expression. The author invokes Post-Freudian and feminist concepts of sexuality to explain culturally specific psychiatric disorders to which Balinese women are prone, interpreting them as expressions of frustrated desire.
She thus convincingly reveals Balinese society as anything but unemotional or stagnant. Rather, it is swept along by currents of emotionally charged desire.
By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography, but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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The way these cornerstones of daily life are played out in the alternative arenas of tourism and illness highlight pervasive gender disparities in the expression of sexuality. By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires. Recensie s The vivid portrayal of the eroticised subjectivity of North Balinese women is complemented by rich analyses of social life.
Jennaway provides us with a profound understanding of the impediments to women's agency, while at the same time speaking eloquently of women's strength and determination.
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It contributes new understandings of Balinese society. Jennaway explicitly targets the traditional muteness and objectification of women in Bali, and aims to make women the articulate subjects of the book.
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In this, she succeeds admirably. In Balinese society and in the anthological literature on Bali, women's voices have traditionally been suppressed Ch. In focusing on female experience and subjectivity, and especially in attending to young women's unconventional expressions of desire for example, deception of parents, 'hysterical' attacks; Chs 6 and 7 , Jennaway allows the women to 'speak' and express their feelings.