Wives, slaves, and concubines
Subtitle: a history of the female underclass in Dutch Asia
By: Eric Jones.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780875804101
Subjects: Women -- Indonesia -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Wives -- Indonesia -- History -- 18th century; Women slaves -- Indonesia -- History -- 18th century; Mistresses -- Indonesia -- History -- 18th century; Concubinage -- Indonesia -- History -- 18th century; Poor women -- Indonesia -- History -- 18th century; Sex role -- Indonesia -- History -- 18th century; Marginality, Social -- Indonesia -- History -- 18th century; Indonesia -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender, bondage, and the law in early Dutch Asia; title: Asia trade and limits of the possible; title: Courts and courtship : legal practice in Dutch Asia; title: Batavia and its runaway slavinnen; title: Gender, abuse, and the modern world system : female violence in eighteenth-century Jakarta.