Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
Women and the Colonial State
Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies 1900-1942
251 pages, 6-1/4 x 9-1/2
©
2000
Paper $34.75
ISBN: 9789053564035
Published January 2004
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada
Preface 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 Bibliography Glossary Index
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