U.S.-Indonesia Cooperative Research: Hidden Power in Gender Relations Among Indonesians: A Case Study in Javanese Villages

9312149 Tickamyer本项目支持Siti Kusujiarti女士在美国肯塔基大学社会学系Ann R. Tickamyer博士指导下的博士论文研究，以及后续关于印尼人性别关系中隐藏的力量的合作研究，为期24个月。将通过密集访谈和观察对印度尼西亚爪哇两个村庄的48对夫妇的日常关系中的性别关系和权力谈判进行调查。本研究将集中于5个家庭活动：家务、生育、生产、财务和社会活动，分析谁拥有权力，如何谈判，以及隐藏潜在冲突的“隐藏文本”。本研究具有理论和现实的社会意义。从理论上讲，它提供了一个比较的观点，关于权力是如何概念化的，并在爪哇人民的性别关系中表现出来。性别意识形态作为妇女政府项目的基础，在确定妇女参与这些项目的特点方面起着核心作用。因此，本研究对于印尼的发展进程以及了解发展过程如何惠及妇女具有重要的现实意义。PI是该提案领域中备受尊敬的研究人员。幸运的是，她的研究生和博士后合作者都是一名印尼女性，她对印尼文化有着透彻的了解，作为研究对象关系的内部人士，她也能被接受。该项目与东亚和太平洋项目的目标相关，该项目旨在通过科学信息、思想、技能和技术的交流以及在互利问题上的合作，提高美国科学家和工程师与亚太地区同行之间的合作水平。＊＊＊

9312149 Tickamyer This project supports dissertation research of Ms. Siti Kusujiarti under the direction of Dr. Ann R. Tickamyer, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, and subsequent collaborative research on hidden power in gender relations among Indonesians, for a period of 24 months. Gender relations and power negotiations in daily relations in 48 couples in two villages in Java, Indonesia, will be investigated by intensive interviewing and observation. This study will focus on 5 household activities: household chores, reproduction, production, financial matters, and social activities analyzing who has power, how it is negotiated, and the "hidden transcripts" which hide latent conflict. This research has both theoretical and practical social significance. Theoretically, it provides a comparative view of how power is conceptualized and manifested in gender relations among the Javanese people. Gender ideology plays a central role as the foundation of women's government programs and in defining the characteristics of women's involvement in these programs. Thus, this research has great practical significance for the course of Indonesian development and for understanding how the development process benefits women. The PI is a highly respected researcher in the field of this proposal. She is fortunate in having as a graduate student and, later, as a postdoctoral collaborator an Indonesian woman with a thorough knowledge of the culture and acceptability, as an insider, to those whose relations will be studied. This project is relevant to the objectives of the East Asia and Pacific Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. scientists and engineers and their counterparts in the Asia-Pacific region through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit. ***