Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth, 1944-

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

251 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Women > Indonesia > History > 20th century
• Women > Indonesia > Social conditions
• Sex role > Indonesia > History > 20th century
• Netherlandish colonies
• Sex role
• Social conditions
• Women
• Women > Social conditions
• Frau
• Geschlechterrolle
• Sozialer Wandel
• Vrouwen
• Sekserol
• Feminisme
• Koloniale periode
• Netherlands > Colonies
• Indonesia > Social conditions > 20th century
• Indonesia
• Indonesien

Genre/Form

• Essays
• History
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

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 -- Female Labour in Twentieth Century Colonial Java: European Notions--Indonesian Practices -- 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 -- '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 -- 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 -- 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.

ISBN

• 9053564039
• 9789053564035
• 9790000000000 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 00416699
• 340261

OCLC

• ocm43673973
• 43673973
• SCSB-1141342

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library