The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia

The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia
Title The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Martyn
Publisher Routledge
Pages 277
Release 2004-11-10
Genre Education
ISBN 1134394705

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This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.

The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia

The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia
Title The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Martyn
Publisher Routledge
Pages 523
Release 2004-11-10
Genre History
ISBN 1134394691

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This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
Title Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Laurie Jo Sears
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 372
Release 1996
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780822316961

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Presenting dialogues between prominent scholars of and from Indonesia and Indonesian women working in professional, activist, religious, and literary domains, the book dissolves essentialist notions of "women" and "Indonesia" that have arisen out of the tensions of empire.

A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism

A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism
Title A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism PDF eBook
Author Etin Anwar
Publisher Routledge
Pages 224
Release 2020-08-14
Genre
ISBN 9780367591908

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This book offers a new insight on the intersection between Islam and feminism and the impact it has on Muslim women's self-narratives of equality from its early encounter during colonialism to its emergence in the 1990s in Indonesia.

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back
Title The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back PDF eBook
Author Grace V. S. Chin
Publisher Springer
Pages 160
Release 2017-12-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9811070652

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This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Bringing to light the selected works of overlooked local women writers and providing new analyses of those produced by internationally-known women authors and artists, the essays situate regional literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to offer incisive analyses and readings on how women and the feminine are imagined, represented, and positioned in relation to the Southeast Asian nation.The book, which features both cross-country comparative analyses and country-specific investigations, also considers the ideas of the nation and the state by investigating related ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, and the ways in which they affect women’s bodies, subjectivities, and lived realities in both historical and contemporary Southeast Asian contexts. By considering how these literary expressions critique, contest, or are complicit in nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas, the collection contributes to the overall regional and comparative discourses on gender, identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies.

Women's Movements in Asia

Women's Movements in Asia
Title Women's Movements in Asia PDF eBook
Author Mina Roces
Publisher Routledge
Pages 287
Release 2010-06-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1136968008

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Written by leading international experts, this book provides an overview of the history and current context of feminism in 12 Asian countries. This breadth of coverage, together with suggestions for further study, and an integrated cross-national timeline makes Women's Movements in Asia ideal for use on courses looking at women and feminism in Asia.

Women and the Colonial State

Women and the Colonial State
Title Women and the Colonial State PDF eBook
Author Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Pages 256
Release 2000
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9789053564035

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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.