Webs of Power: Women, Kin, and Community in a Sumatran Village

Webs of Power offers a fresh perspective on women in Southeast Asia. Although the book focuses on one village, it provides vital insights into the gendered processes of post-coloniality. By exploring the contestations and accommodations being made in rural villages by both men and women, Webs of Power reveals the processes at the heart of globalization as well as the complexities of power that circulate between women and men in a rural peasant society.


About the Author
Evelyn Blackwood is assistant professor in women's studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University.