Wives, Slaves, and Concubines : : A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia / / Eric Jones.
Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, modern-day Indonesia, to deal with difficult realities in Southeast Asia. Jones uses compelling stories from ordinary Asian women to explore the profound...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 10 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1-Gender, Bondage, and the Law in Early Dutch Asia Women in Dutch Asia
- 2-Asia Trade and Limits of the Possible
- 3-Courts and Courtship-Legal Practice in Dutch Asia
- 4-Batavia and Its Runaway Slavinnen
- 5-Gender, Abuse, and the Modern World System Female Violence in Eighteenth-century Jakarta
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index