The Flaming Womb : : Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia /

The Flaming Womb : : Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia / / Barbara Watson Andaya.

"The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Andaya, Barbara Watson,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 5 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Women and "Southeast Asia"
  • Chapter 2. Early Modernity, Sources, and Women's History
  • Chapter 3. Women and Religious Change
  • Chapter 4. Women and Economic Change
  • Chapter 5. States, Subjects, and Households
  • Chapter 6. Women, Courts, and Class
  • Chapter 7. Being Female in "Early Modern" Southeast Asia
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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