Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9789971696740; 9789971696870
Subjects: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
Description: Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little ? if any ? mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. This book makes a strong case for the significance of women?s involvement in nationalist movements.

The authors show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, 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 

Fully documented and drawing on wider scholarship, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian history and politics as well as readers with a particular interest in women, nationalism and political activism.
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