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

Locher‐Scholten, Elsbeth

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“…This is somewhat different from the arguments of Muslim women's groups in earlier decades of the 20th century. These women defended the practice against a colonial regime bent on regulating religious life, but they also took actions to mitigate polygamy's effects on women, such as educating women about their rights in a polygamous marriage (Locher-Scholten 2000). In contrast, PKS women's statements are predicated on a more straightforward approach to the Quran that is central to the ideology of PKS.…”

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Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia

Rinaldo

2011

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Since 1998, Indonesia's democratization has produced contentious public debates, many of which revolve around issues of gender and sexual morality. Yet such controversies not only often focus on women, but also involve women as participants. This article examines how Muslim women activists in two organizations adapt global discourses to participate in important public sphere debates about pornography and polygamy. Indonesia's moral debates demonstrate an important way in which global discourses are negotiated in national settings. In the debates, some pious women use discourses of feminism and liberal Islam to argue for women's equality, while others use Islam to call for greater moral regulation of society. My research demonstrates that global discourses of feminism and Islamic revivalism are mediated through national organizations which shape women's political activism and channel it in different directions. Women's political subjectivities are thus shaped through their involvement in national organizations that structure the ways they engage with global discourses. The Indonesian case shows not only that the national should not be conflated with the local, but also demonstrates the significance of national contexts and histories for understanding global processes.

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Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia

Rinaldo

2011

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“…Whilst colonial regimes in Southeast Asian societies were largely preoccupied with regulating marriage in respect to who was included and excluded from the ruling class (Locher-Scholten 2000;Stoler 2002;Loos 2008), interAsian and indigenous unions for the most part remained invisible to these regimes. Yet in post-colonial societies, many modern-nation states such as Indonesia 1 took it upon themselves to attempt to regulate marriage as a larger project of modernisation and development.…”

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Everyday Politics of (In)formal Marital Dissolution in Cambodia and Indonesia

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Platt

2013

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Placing contemporary marriage and its dissolution at its heart, this paper explores rural women's experiences of customary and legal unions in Cambodia and Indonesia. We contend that women's navigation in-between 'informal' ethics and morals versus 'formal' state-sponsored legal doctrine constitute a form of 'everyday politics' that has been unduly neglected. Critiquing the taken-for-granted nature of marriage in academic scholarship, we show how the axiomatic notion that marriage registration is inherently beneficial to women is complicated by the nonlinear and mobile trajectories of conjugality in our two case study communities. In turn, we call for marriage and its breakdown to receive more sustained and nuanced analysis as the primary unit of Southeast Asian life.

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“…To acquire the credentials for future careers, sons of these unions were sent to the Netherlands for their education (if their fathers could afford it); daughters generally stayed in the Indies. For newly arrived European men, these women were excellent mediators between the local indigenous population, the population of European descent who had lived in the colonies for several generations, and themselves as newly arrived Europeans (Clancy-Smith and Gouda 1998;Locher-Scholten 2000). Their wives arranged the hiring of employees and servants, oversaw the household, supervised the purchasing of food and other goods, and negotiated the demands of local rulers.…”

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European Physicians and Botanists, Indigenous Herbal Medicine in the Dutch East Indies, and Colonial Networks of Mediation

Pols¹

2009

East Asian Science

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During the nineteenth and the early twentieth century, European physicians and botanists working in the Dutch East Indies displayed an eager interest in Indonesian indigenous herbal medicine or jamu, the investigation of which required them to establish contacts with local informers and mediators who could make indigenous medicine understandable to researchers. In the Dutch East Indies, these mediators were Indo-European women who had built up a medical lore with both European and Indigenous elements. The diminishing trust in the standard therapeutic measures created a window of opportunity for the investigation of Indonesian indigenous herbal medicine. The way medical knowledge circulated in the Dutch East Indies, the intermediaries who aided this circulation and the factors which impeded or facilitated it, and the ways in which European physicians and botanists legitimized indigenous herbal medicine are analyzed.

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

Cited by 156 publications

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Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia

Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia

Everyday Politics of (In)formal Marital Dissolution in Cambodia and Indonesia

European Physicians and Botanists, Indigenous Herbal Medicine in the Dutch East Indies, and Colonial Networks of Mediation

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