Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942

by Elsbeth Locher-Scholten

Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053564039
• ISBN13: 9789053564035
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"