Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies 1900-1942 - by Elsbeth Locher-Scholten

 

Book Description

Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects, in which women figured prominently at the time: Indonesian labour, Indonesian servants in colonial homes, Dutch colonial fashion and food, the feminist struggle for the vote and the intense debate about monogamy of and by women at the end of the 1930s. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to debates about Orientalism, the construction of whiteness, and to questions of modernity and the colonial state formation.

Product Details

Publisher : Amsterdam University Press; 1st edition (January 9, 2004)

Language: : English

Paperback : 251 pages

ISBN-10 : 9053564039

ISBN-13 : 978-9053564035

Item Weight : 1.01 pounds

Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.6 x 9.5 inches

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    #1,362 in Dutch History

    #5,172 in Southeast Asia History

    #19,523 in Women in History

Author(s)

Biography

Elsbeth Locher-Scholten is affiliated with the Instituut Geschiedenis at the University of Utrecht.

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