title: The Domestication of Desire
author:  Suzanne April Brenner 
description: <b>&quot;Winner of the 2000 Harry J. Benda Prize, Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies&quot;</b><br /><br />"Brenner has made an intelligent use of her ethnographic experiences to formulate a compelling and highly readable text on issues of current theoretical concern. Her work displays an admirable grasp of the complex social and economic transformations which have taken place in Java over the last century . . .[A] timely and impressive book."<b>---Jennifer Alexander, <i>Pacific Affairs</i></b><br /><br />"Suzanne Brenner's book is an engaging account of the making of modernity and its reversals . . . In the batik-producing district of Laweyan, Solo, Java."<b>---Maila Stivens, <i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</i></b>
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  **Gastien: From Dream to Destiny**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **By Caddy
  
  
  Rowland**
  
  
  
  
  
  **Book Description**
  
  
  
  
  
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  _"I am Gastien Beauchamp, artist
  
  
  and lover. Any Frenchman would tell you that a peasant could never own
  property
  
  
  in nineteenth century France. Yet here I am, in my very own studio. The
  personal
  
  
  cost was horrendous. I barely survived the choices I made, and my sanity was
  
  
  pushed to its limits.  
  
  
    
  
  
  Still, I finally now have security, peace, and freedom. For the rest of my
  life
  
  
  I can spend time "making love to the color", making love to beautiful
  
  
  women, and enjoying the wild nightlife of bohemian Montmartre. What more could
  
  
  a man need or want?  
  
  
    
  
  
  Then, one night, I see her. One look at Sophie, and my heart wants to betray
  
  
  me! I try to tell myself that I know better. Who needs love, anyway? I am
  already
  
  
  married-to my art!  
  
  
    
  
  
  No woman would ever understand and accept my lifestyle; nor am I about to give
  
  