Whose stress? Emotion work in middle-class Javanese homes

Author: Carla Jones

Source: Ethnos, Volume 69, Number 4, December 2004 , pp. 509-528(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

By attending to ways in which middle-class wives in Yogyakarta, Java, describe negotiating sentiments among family members (including children, maids and husbands), this article argues that domestic relations in middle-class homes in Java have been importantly inflected by state rhetoric on gender propriety and market ideas of work. As a result, both middle-class women and maids have come to conceive of emotion work as part of an array of domestic obligations central to social reproduction.

Keywords: Emotion work; maids; middle class; Indonesia

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/0014184042000302326

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