ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at shifts in the discourses about Indonesian women in the current phase of their enmeshment into global exchanges. It tries to understand the interplay of class and gender in the changing constructions of women in Indonesia. Through a reading of key state policy documents and advertising images in the 1990s, I argue that the ‘working woman’ operates as an increasingly central, though highly contested, signifier in contemporary Indonesian politics and popular culture.
