Book Review: Strangers in the Family. Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia by Seng Guo-Quan
In: Journal of family history: studies in family, kinship and demography
ISSN: 1552-5473
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In: Journal of family history: studies in family, kinship and demography
ISSN: 1552-5473
In: The Journal of the history of childhood and youth, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 93-111
ISSN: 1941-3599
In: Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 75-78
ISSN: 2352-2437
In: New global studies, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 217-234
ISSN: 1940-0004
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This article compares two Protestant schools for elite indigenous girls in the Dutch East Indies. While both schools were financially supported by the colonial government, they emerged from Christian organizations and were partly dependent on voluntary gifts from the Netherlands and the colony. The article proposes to look at such philanthropic initiatives as integral parts of a larger colonial civilizing mission which was not limited to the colonial state. On the contrary, discourses about the implementation of "civilized" gender roles within indigenous families through girls' education first emerged among philanthropists, and eventually influenced state-driven educational policies for girls. It is argued that philanthropical initiatives for girls' education such as the two schools presented here are best understood as attempts to gain control over, and ultimately reform, the domestic lives of the indigenous population in the Dutch East Indies
Published Online: 2018-06-26 ; This article compares two Protestant schools for elite indigenous girls in the Dutch East Indies. While both schools were financially supported by the colonial government, they emerged from Christian organizations and were partly dependent on voluntary gifts from the Netherlands and the colony. The article proposes to look at such philanthropic initiatives as integral parts of a larger colonial civilizing mission which was not limited to the colonial state. On the contrary, discourses about the implementation of "civilized" gender roles within indigenous families through girls' education first emerged among philanthropists, and eventually influenced state-driven educational policies for girls. It is argued that philanthropical initiatives for girls' education such as the two schools presented here are best understood as attempts to gain control over, and ultimately reform, the domestic lives of the indigenous population in the Dutch East Indies.
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In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 183-185
ISSN: 2041-2827
In: International review of social history, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 1-14
ISSN: 1469-512X
AbstractThis article provides an introduction to the two articles in this Special Theme on education, labour, and discipline in colonial Asia. It offers a brief historiography of education to indigenous children in the colonial context provided by non-state as well as state actors. We argue that while many studies have separated the motives behind, and actions of, these different actors in relation to education and "civilizing missions", it is worthwhile connecting these histories. Moreover, apart from looking at motives, the articles in this Special Theme aim to show the value of studying educationalpracticesin a colonial context. Finally, this introduction identifies several opportunities for future – comparative as well as transnational – studies into the topic of education, child labour, and discipline.
In: Yearbook of Women's History
The category of species has remained largely understudied in mainstream gender scholarship. This edition of the Yearbook of Women's History attempts to show how gender history can be enriched through the study of animals. It highlights that the inclusion of nonhuman animals in historical work has the potential to revolutionize the ways we think about gender history. This volume is expansive in more than one way. First, it is global and transhistorical in its outlook, bringing together perspectives from the Global North and the Global South, and moving from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Even more importantly for its purposes, a range of animals appear in the contributions: from the smallest insects to great apes, and from 'cute' kittens to riot dogs and lions. The articles collected here reflect the variety of the animal kingdom and of the creative approaches enabled by animal history
In: Yearbook of Women's History Series v.42