Title: Women in Southeast Asian nationalist movements : a biographical approach /
Authors: Blackburn, Susan, 1947-; Ting, Helen, 1964-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women Political activity Southeast Asia Biography.; Nationalism Southeast Asia History.; Women political activists Southeast Asia Biography.; Women Political activity Southeast Asia.
Abstract: "Some of the 12 women whose political activities are discussed in this volume are well known, while others are not. Some of them participated in armed struggles, while others pursued peaceful ways of achieving national independence. The authors show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal tradition, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. They also illustrate the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and show what it was like to live as a political activist in different times and places"--Cover, page [4].
Contents: The life and writings of a patriotic feminist, independent Daw San of Burma / Chie Ikeya -- I die because of my circumstances, Nguyen Thi Giang and the Viet Nam Quôc Dan Dang / Micheline Lessard -- Suyatin Kartowiyono, a nationalist leader of the Indonesian women's movement / Susan Blackburn -- Rasuna Said, lioness of the Indonesian independence movement / Sally White -- Salud Algabre, a forgotten member of the Philippine Sakdal / Ma. Luisa T. Camagay -- Shamsiah Fakeh and Aishah Ghani in Malaya, nationalists in their own right, feminists ahead of their time / Helen Ting -- Lily Eberwein, her life and involvement in the anti-cession movement in Sarawak / Welyne J. Jehom -- Minority women and the revolution in the highlands of Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Bisoi, a veteran of Timor-Leste's independence movement / Sara Niner -- Karen nationalism and armed struggle, from the perspective of Zipporah Sein / Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung and Violet Cho.