The women's movement in post-colonial Indonesia : gender and nation in a new democracy
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Bibliographic Information
The women's movement in post-colonial Indonesia : gender and nation in a new democracy
(ASAA women in Asia series / editor, Louise Edwards)
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Monash University
Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-260) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Theoretical and Historical Background 1. Missing Images: Approaching Indonesian Women's Activism 2. Emergence of a Women's Movement: Nationalism and women's rights in Indonesia 1900-49 Part 2 Women's Mobilization in the 1950s - The National Level 3. The Promise of Independence: Women's Mobilization in a New Nation-State 4. Meeting Practical Gender Interests: Women's Organizations' Socio-Economic Activities 5. Representing Women in a New Democracy: Women's Organizations and National Politics 6. Confronting the State: The Fight for a Marriage Law Part 3 Challenging the National Level Perspective 7. Women's International Interests: Representing Gender and Nation at the International Level 8. Unity in Diversity: Women's Regional Interests in 1950s Indonesia 9. Constructing Womanhood in a New Nation-State: Indonesian Women's Experiences of Independence and Democracy Appendix: Examples of women's organisations belonging to Kongres Wanita Indonesia 1958 Glossary Bibliography
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