| ID | 124276 |
| Title Proper | New voices from Southeast Asian women |
| Other Title Information | a review essay |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Andaya, Barbara Watson |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Historians may have come late to the study of women and gender in Southeast Asia, but when these three books are placed along a historiographical spectrum one can only be impressed at how far the field has moved in approach and methodology. Exploiting previously untapped sources that emanate from very different sites - a Dutch East India Company courtroom, the women's quarters of a Malay palace, the privacy of a Javanese home - the authors open up new avenues by which to explore the complexity of Southeast Asia's gender history. Though the contexts are very different, the movement through time (Wives, slaves and concubines is set in the late eighteenth century, Victorious wives in the nineteenth, and Realizing the dream in the twentieth) provides an opportunity to gauge shifts in representations of 'femaleness', attitudes towards gender roles, and women's responses to change. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of South East Asian Studies Vol.44, No.1; 2013: p.145-169 |
| Journal Source | Journal of South East Asian Studies Vol.44, No.1; 2013: p.145-169 |
| Key Words | History ; Dutch ; East India Company ; 18th Century ; Victorious Wives ; South East Asia ; Asian Women ; Methodology ; Malay Place ; Gender History |