Maiden Voyages : : Eastern Indonesian Women on the Move / / Catharina Purwani Williams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Purwani Williams, Catharina,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

Maiden Voyages is a fascinating, unusual study of the centrality, impact and place of sea travel on the lives of women in Eastern Indonesia. It shows how women there travel constantly by sea, to move between islands, to urban centres and even overseas. In doing so, they negotiate and cross and re-make their social boundaries. In contrast to the dominant economic approach to migration, this book uses Eastern Indonesian women’s own travel accounts to show how sea voyages recreate their identities. The book is based on research of contemporary rural and semi-rural women in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. This book is an original and valuable contribution to the debates on gender, subjectivity, and the local specificity. It aims to contribute to an understanding of women’s mobility and spatial relations in Eastern Indonesia. It will be of interest to scholars of geography, migration, gender and microeconomics as well as of appeal to general readers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE. DEPARTURE -- 1. Women, Space, and Travel -- 2. Charting the Routes -- 3. Situating Women and Their Travel -- PART TWO. JOURNEYS -- 4. Inter-island Travel: Women Negotiating Boundaries of Propriety -- 5. Travel to Urban Centres: Nurses and Teachers Mobilizing Selves -- 6. Travel Abroad: Recollections of Domestic Workers -- PART THREE. REFLECTIONS -- 7. Moving Forward: A Process of Becoming -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author