Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia - O'Shaughnessy, Kate (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra a Department of History, University of Western Australia, Australia)

This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing especially on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005. It shows how regulation was an important tool of social control by the New Order regime, and explores how state power was contested and co-opted by men and women.