Center for Khmer Studies Library

Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements a biographical approach edited by Susan Blackburn and Helen Ting.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Singapore NUS Press 2013.Description: ix, 333 pages illustrations, maps, portraits 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789971696740 (paper
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.0820959 BLA
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.The Life and Writings of a Patriotic Feminist: Independent Daw San of Burma /​ Chie Ikeya 2."I Die Because of My Circumstances": Nguyen Thi Giang and the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang /​ Micheline Lessard 3.Suyatin Kartowiyono: A Nationalist Leader of the Indonesian Women's Movement /​ Susan Blackburn 4.Rasuna Said: Lioness of the Indonesian Independence Movement /​ Sally White 5.Salud Algabre: A Forgotten Member of the Philippine Sakdal /​ Ma. Luisa T. Camagay 6.Shamsiah Fakeh and Aishah Ghani in Malaya: Nationalists in Their Own Right, Feminists ahead of Their Time /​ Helen Ting 7.Lily Eberwein: Her Life and Involvement in the Anti-cession Movement in Sarawak /​ Welyne J. Jehom 8."Minority" Women and the Revolution in the Highlands of Laos: Two Narratives /​ Vatthana Pholsena 9.Bisoi: A Veteran of Timor-Leste's Independence Movement /​ Sara Niner Contents note continued: 10.Karen Nationalism and Armed Struggle: From the Perspective of Zipporah Sein /​ Violet Cho. 7.Lily Eberwein: Her Life and Involvement in the Anti-cession Movement in Sarawak /​ Welyne J. Jehom 8."Minority" Women and the Revolution in the Highlands of Laos: Two Narratives /​ Vatthana Pholsena 9.Bisoi: A Veteran of Timor-Leste's Independence Movement /​ Sara Niner Contents note continued: 10.Karen Nationalism and Armed Struggle: From the Perspective of Zipporah Sein /​ Violet Cho.
Summary: This book makes a strong case for the significance of women's involvement in nationalist movements and for the diverse impacts of those movements on the lives of individual women 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 book shows women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. It also illustrates 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-315) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Life and Writings of a Patriotic Feminist: Independent Daw San of Burma /​ Chie Ikeya 2."I Die Because of My Circumstances": Nguyen Thi Giang and the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang /​ Micheline Lessard 3.Suyatin Kartowiyono: A Nationalist Leader of the Indonesian Women's Movement /​ Susan Blackburn 4.Rasuna Said: Lioness of the Indonesian Independence Movement /​ Sally White 5.Salud Algabre: A Forgotten Member of the Philippine Sakdal /​ Ma. Luisa T. Camagay 6.Shamsiah Fakeh and Aishah Ghani in Malaya: Nationalists in Their Own Right, Feminists ahead of Their Time /​ Helen Ting 7.Lily Eberwein: Her Life and Involvement in the Anti-cession Movement in Sarawak /​ Welyne J. Jehom 8."Minority" Women and the Revolution in the Highlands of Laos: Two Narratives /​ Vatthana Pholsena 9.Bisoi: A Veteran of Timor-Leste's Independence Movement /​ Sara Niner Contents note continued: 10.Karen Nationalism and Armed Struggle: From the Perspective of Zipporah Sein /​ Violet Cho. 7.Lily Eberwein: Her Life and Involvement in the Anti-cession Movement in Sarawak /​ Welyne J. Jehom 8."Minority" Women and the Revolution in the Highlands of Laos: Two Narratives /​ Vatthana Pholsena 9.Bisoi: A Veteran of Timor-Leste's Independence Movement /​ Sara Niner Contents note continued: 10.Karen Nationalism and Armed Struggle: From the Perspective of Zipporah Sein /​ Violet Cho.

This book makes a strong case for the significance of women's involvement in nationalist movements and for the diverse impacts of those movements on the lives of individual women 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 book shows women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. It also illustrates 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.

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