Women and the colonial state : essays on gender and modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942

Women and the colonial state essays on gender and modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942

Relevant and new insights in the social dynamics of society and politics in relation to gender.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth, 1944- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press c2000.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Women > Indonesia > History > 20th century.
Women > Indonesia > Social conditions.
Sex role > Indonesia > History > 20th century.
Netherlands > Colonies.
Indonesia > Social conditions > 20th century.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I By Way of a Prologue and Epilogue: Gender, Modernity and the Colonial State
  • After the 'The Family of Man'
  • Women and the Colonial State
  • Historical Context
  • Contents
  • Orientalism, Gender and Class
  • Whiteness and 'European-ness'
  • Colonial Modernity and Gender
  • Nation-State and Female Colonial Citizenship
  • II Female Labour in Twentieth Century Colonial Java: European Notions - Indonesian Practices
  • Introduction
  • European Notions
  • Female Night Labour in the Netherlands Indies
  • The Indonesian Practice: Figures from the 1920s and 1930s
  • Analyses of Indigenous Agriculture
  • The Census of 1930
  • The Coolie Budget Survey in Java 1939-1940
  • Concluding Remarks
  • III 'So Close and Yet So Far': European Ambivalence towards Javanese Servants
  • Introduction
  • Sources and Their Authors
  • 'Different' or 'One Step Behind'?
  • Facts and Figures on Colonial Domestics
  • Manuals and Advice Literature
  • Children's Literature
  • Servants in Youth Literature
  • Concluding Remarks
  • IV Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles
  • Introduction
  • European Women in the Colonial Community
  • What to Wear?
  • Shopping, Sewing and the Jahit
  • The Illusion of Westernisation
  • European Food
  • In the Shadow of the Second World War
  • Concluding Remarks
  • V Feminism, Citizenship and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage in a Colonial Context
  • Introduction
  • Gender and Class in Representative Institutions
  • The First Phase: 1908-1925
  • The Second Phase: In the Indies, 1925-1937
  • Indonesian and Colonial Feminism
  • The First Female Member of the People's Council
  • The Third Phase: 1937-1941
  • Winning the Right to Vote
  • Concluding Remarks
  • VI Marriage, Morality and Modernity: The 1937 Debate on Monogamy
  • Introduction
  • Marriage in Colonial Indonesia.
  • Indonesian Requests
  • The Debate of the 1920s and 1930s: The Indonesian Perspective
  • The Colonial Government's Position
  • The Two Origins of the Draft
  • Intersection of Gender, Race and Class
  • Indonesian Reactions
  • Islamic Arguments
  • Secular Criticisms
  • The Bangoen Affair
  • Consequences
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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