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Author Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth, 1944-

Title Women and the colonial state : essays on gender and modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942 / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
Contents By Way of a Prologue and Epilogue: Gender, Modernity and the Colonial State -- Female Labour in Twentieth Century Colonial Java: European Notions -- Indonesian Practices -- So Close and Yet So Far': European Ambivalence towards Javanese Servants -- Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles -- Feminism, Citizenship and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage in a Colonial Context -- 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."--Jacket.
Note Print version record.
Subject Women -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Indonesia -- Social conditions.
Sex role -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Netherlands -- Colonies.
Indonesia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Humanities.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Colonialism and imperialism.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
HISTORY -- General.
Netherlandish colonies. (OCoLC)fst01930858
Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
Indonesia. (OCoLC)fst01209242
Vrouwen.
Sekserol.
Feminisme.
Koloniale periode.
Indonesien.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Indexed Term Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth, 1944- Women and the colonial state. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2000 9053564039 9789053564035 (DLC) 00416699 (OCoLC)43673973
ISBN 9789048505777 (electronic bk.)
9048505771 (electronic bk.)
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9781281972347
9053564039
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