It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Domestication of Desire by Suzanne April Brenner
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth century. Focusing on this community, Brenner examines what she calls the making of the "unmodern." She portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its distinctive forms of social life and highlights the unique power of women in the...
The Domestication of Desire by Suzanne April Brenner is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Domestication of Desire aloud.
The Domestication of Desire is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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