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Barbara Watson AndayaPublication Details
BookUniversity of Hawaii Press2006Availability
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Description
“The Princess of the Flaming Womb,” the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. She examines the degree to which world religions have been instrumental in (re)constructing conceptions of gender?an issue especially pertinent to Southeast Asian societies because of the leading role so often played by women in indigenous ritual. Throughout, her creative approach to familiar sources offers surprising results and, while always alert to the difficulties of generalization, affirms the existence of a Southeast Asia where the history of women can be legitimately investigated. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction
- Women and "Southeast Asia"
- Early modernity, sources, and women’s history
- Women and religious change
- Women and economic change
- States, subjects, and households
- Women, courts, and class
- Being female in "early modern" Southeast Asia
- Conclusion
ISBN
- 0824829557
- 9780824829551
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