TY  - BOOK
AU  - Locher-Scholten,Elsbeth
TI  - Women and the colonial state: essays on gender and modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942 
SN  - 9048505771
AV  - HQ1752 .L63 2000eb
U1  - 305.42095980904 22
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Colonialism and imperialism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History: specific events and topics
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Netherlandish colonies
KW  - fast
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Society and social sciences
KW  - Feminisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Koloniale periode
KW  - Sekserol
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Indonesien
KW  - gnd
KW  - History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
KW  - Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index; 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt46n2p0
ER  -