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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Indonesia--History--20th century.

Women.

Women--Indonesia--Social conditions.

Sex role--Indonesia--History--20th century.

Sex role.

Netherlands--Colonies.

Netherlands.

Indonesia--Social conditions--20th century.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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

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

IV Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles

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

V Feminism, Citizenship and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage in a Colonial Context

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

VI Marriage, Morality and Modernity: The 1937 Debate on Monogamy

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

Bibliography

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-238) and index.

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ISBN:

9786611972349

9781281972347

1281972347

9789048505777

9048505771

OCLC:

302054346

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789053564035