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