The persistence of the housewife ideology: Shifts in women’s roles in production of Sumbanese handwoven cloth

Gajjala, radhika and Ololade, Margaret Faniy and Sarah, Ford and Untari, Rustina and Muhammad, Taufiq Al Makmun (2022) The persistence of the housewife ideology: Shifts in women’s roles in production of Sumbanese handwoven cloth. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2022, Vol. 25(6) 1617–1632, 25 (6). pp. 1617-1632.

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Abstract

This article examines women’s shifting roles in the production of handwoven cloth in Sumba, Indonesia. The main themes that emerge are the invisible labor of women and the production of a self-empowered entrepreneurial, gendered, laboring subjectivity that works in tandem with a housewife ideology firmly situated in a ‘new’ liberal patriarchy. The inequalities emerging from these shifts are parallel to inequalities produced through neoliberalization of global south craft communities in a context of global markets and tourist-oriented production. The discussion in this article is based on case studies drawn from over 50 interviews conducted during field visits and continued remotely when away from the field in Lambanapu and Praillu regions in Waingapu of Sumba, Indonesia. Overall, our analysis reveals how cultural work in this global south context reproduces a Westernized, neoliberal patriarchy even as it allows for individualized expressions of women’s agency.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	300 Social Sciences > 330 Economics > Entrepreneurship
Depositing User:	Ms Rustina Untari
Date Deposited:	04 May 2024 20:38
Last Modified:	04 May 2024 20:38
URI:	http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/35337

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