| Description |
251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. By Way of a Prologue and Epilogue: Gender, Modernity and the Colonial State -- II. Female Labour in Twentieth Century Colonial Java: European Notions - Indonesian Practices -- III. 'So Close and Yet So Far': European Ambivalence towards Javanese Servants -- IV. Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles -- V. Feminism, Citizenship and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage in a Colonial Context -- VI. Marriage, Morality and Modernity: The 1937 Debate on Monogamy |
| Summary |
"This book deals with the ambiguous relationship between Indonesian and European women and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies (or Dutch East Indies) between 1900 and 1942. How did women of different racial backgrounds relate to each other and to 'the colonial project'? How did the colonial state address women's issues? What were the constructions of gender which dominated the discourse on these issues?" "The content is based on new data from a variety of sources, such as censuses, colonial archives, rural labour reports, household manuals, children's fiction and Indonesian press surveys. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to ongoing debates within the history of colonialism. The book thus provides the reader with new insights in the social dynamics of colonial society and politics in relation to gender."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines |
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Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Indonesia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Women -- Indonesia -- Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
Indonesia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115463 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Netherlands -- Colonies.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009008118
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Author |
Nederlandse Centrale Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek.
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| LC no. |
00416699 |
| ISBN |
9053564039 |
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