The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia : Gender and Nation in a New Democracy / / by Elizabeth Martyn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450990503321
• Autore: Martyn Elizabeth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, FL : , : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-53750-6; 0-203-29919-1; 0-203-16422-9
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Collana: ASAA women in Asia series
• Classificazione: 15.75
• Disciplina: 305.4/09598
• Soggetti: Women - Indonesia - History - 20th century; Feminism - Indonesia - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Missing images Approaching Indonesian women's activism; 2 Emergence of a women's movement: Nationalism and women's rights in Indonesia 1900 1949; 3 The promise of independence: Women's mobilization in a new nation state; 4 Addressing practical gender interests: Women's organizations' socio economic activities; 5 Representing women in a new democracy: Women's organizations and national politics; 6 Confronting the state The fight for a marriage law; 7 Women's international interests: Representing gender and nation at the international level8 Unity in diversity Women's regional interests in 1950s Indonesia; 9 Conclusion constructing womanhood in a new nation state Indonesian women's experiences of independence and democracy in the 1950s; Appendix Women's organizations of the 1950s; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national ; sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.