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

"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'...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.