Review Women of the Kakawin World, Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali

Title of article (Indonesian)

Ulasan Perempuan dalam Dunia Kakawin, Perkawinan dan Seksualitas pada Kerajaan India di Jawa dan Bali

Title of article (Balinese)

Ulasan Para istri Kaunggahang ring Kakawin, Mapikuren lan Seksualitas Manut Karajaan India ring Jawi lan Bali.

Original title language

English

Title (other local language)

Author(s)

Raechelle Rubenstein

Subjects

art and culture

Title of Journal

eCommons Open Scholarship at Cornell

Volume and Issue number

82

Date of Publication

Page Numbers

139-140

Link to whole article

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/54386

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Abstract

In English

Women of the Kakawin World is a historical study of the experiences of women, in particular royal women and their associates, in the courts of pre-Islamic Java and early modern Bali. Creese draws upon her background in philology to examine the corpus of epic kakawin (poems written in Old Javanese in verse) that were composed in those courtly centers over a millennium, as they provide rich insights about the lives of women that are not available from other sources. With its interest in the representations of women, the book makes a valuable contribution to gender studies in Indonesia, the more so since it is focused heavily on the contemporary period. It is also an important study of the social institutions of courtship and marriage. Finally, although this is not the book's main intention, it contributes to knowledge of the kakawin genre by analyzing kakawin from a new perspective. Full review is available in: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/54386

In Balinese

In Indonesian

Women of the Kakawin World adalah studi sejarah tentang pengalaman wanita, khususnya wanita kerajaan dan rekan-rekan mereka, di istana Jawa pra-Islam dan Bali modern awal. Creese memanfaatkan latar belakangnya di bidang filologi untuk meneliti kumpulan epos kakawin (puisi yang ditulis dalam bahasa Jawa Kuno dalam syair) yang digubah di pusat-pusat istana selama lebih dari satu milenium, karena mereka memberikan wawasan yang kaya tentang kehidupan perempuan yang tidak tersedia dari tempat lain. Dengan ketertarikannya pada representasi perempuan, buku ini memberikan kontribusi yang berharga bagi studi gender di Indonesia, terlebih lagi karena banyak berfokus pada periode kontemporer. Ini juga merupakan studi penting tentang institusi sosial pacaran dan pernikahan. Akhirnya, meskipun ini bukan tujuan utama buku ini, buku ini berkontribusi pada pengetahuan tentang genre kakawin dengan menganalisis kakawin dari perspektif baru. Ulasan lengkap dari buku ini tersedia di: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/54386