repositioning women in early modern Southeast Asia
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Andaya, Barbara Watson
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- ZO AZ 1A 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwelijkheid, rolgedrag, vrouwbeelden, vrouwengeschiedenis, religie, economie, politiek, sociale klasse, slavernij, vroegmoderne periode, Zuidoost-Azië, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw
- Description
- View of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women’s roles and perceptions and ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asia. Andaya explores themes of the early modern era (1500–1800), such as the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behavious. She examines the degree to which world religions have been instrumental in (re)constructing conceptions of gender and the effects of the expansion of long-distance trade, the incorporation of the region into a global trading network, the beginnings of cash-cropping and wage labour, and the increase in slavery on the position of women.