Women and the colonial state : : essays on gender and modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942 / / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten.

• Author: Locher-Scholten, Elsbeth, 1944-
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 pages) :; illustrations, maps

Relevant and new insights in the social dynamics of society and politics in relation to gender.

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• I By Way of a Prologue and Epilogue: Gender, Modernity and the Colonial State
• After the 'The Family of Man'
• Women and the Colonial State
• Historical Context
• Contents
• Orientalism, Gender and Class
• Whiteness and 'European-ness'
• Colonial Modernity and Gender
• Nation-State and Female Colonial Citizenship
• II Female Labour in Twentieth Century Colonial Java: European Notions - Indonesian Practices
• Introduction
• European Notions
• Female Night Labour in the Netherlands Indies
• The Indonesian Practice: Figures from the 1920s and 1930s
• Analyses of Indigenous Agriculture
• The Census of 1930
• The Coolie Budget Survey in Java 1939-1940
• Concluding Remarks
• III 'So Close and Yet So Far': European Ambivalence towards Javanese Servants
• Introduction
• Sources and Their Authors
• 'Different' or 'One Step Behind'?
• Facts and Figures on Colonial Domestics
• Manuals and Advice Literature
• Children's Literature
• Servants in Youth Literature
• Concluding Remarks
• IV Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles
• Introduction
• European Women in the Colonial Community
• What to Wear?
• Shopping, Sewing and the Jahit
• The Illusion of Westernisation
• European Food
• In the Shadow of the Second World War
• Concluding Remarks
• V Feminism, Citizenship and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage in a Colonial Context
• Introduction
• Gender and Class in Representative Institutions
• The First Phase: 1908-1925
• The Second Phase: In the Indies, 1925-1937
• Indonesian and Colonial Feminism
• The First Female Member of the People's Council
• The Third Phase: 1937-1941
• Winning the Right to Vote
• Concluding Remarks
• VI Marriage, Morality and Modernity: The 1937 Debate on Monogamy
• Introduction
• Marriage in Colonial Indonesia.
• Indonesian Requests
• The Debate of the 1920s and 1930s: The Indonesian Perspective
• The Colonial Government's Position
• The Two Origins of the Draft
• Intersection of Gender, Race and Class
• Indonesian Reactions
• Islamic Arguments
• Secular Criticisms
• The Bangoen Affair
• Consequences
• Concluding Remarks
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index.