Women and the Colonial State
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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
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