Suzanne A. Brenner

Suzanne A. Brenner, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1991. Her academic interests include sociocultural anthropology; gender, family, and social transformation; the anthropology of modernity; contemporary religious movements; and women and Islam. Her regions of specialization are Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, and the United States.

Brenner is the author of The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java (Princeton 1998; winner of the 2000 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies).

Other representative publications include:

"Islam and Gender Politics in Late New Order Indonesia." In Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia, edited by Andrew C. Willford and Kenneth M. George. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Progam, 2005.

"On the Public Intimacy of the New Order: Images of Women in the Popular Indonesian Print Media." Indonesia 67 (April 1999).

"Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and 'the Veil.'" American Ethnologist 23(4) (November 1996).

"Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control." In Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael Peletz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. (Reprinted in Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 3rd ed., edited by Caroline Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2001.)