Women Warriors in Southeast Asia

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-82935-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times.

Using a number of sources, including royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs and interviews, the book discusses why women warriors were active in a domain traditionally preserved for men, and how they arguably transgressed peacetime gender boundaries as agents of violence. From multidisciplinary perspectives, the chapters assess what drove women to take on a variety of roles, namely palace guards, guerrillas and war leaders, and to what extent their experiences were different to those of men. The reader is taken on an almost 1,500-year long journey through a crossroads region well-known for the diversity of its peoples and cultures, but also their ability to creatively graft foreign ideas onto existing ones. The book also explores the re-integration of women into post-conflict Southeast Asian societies, including the impact (or lack thereof) of newly established international norms, and the frequent turn towards pre-conflict gender roles in these societies.

Written by an international team of scholars, this book will be of interest to academics working on Southeast Asian Studies, Gender Studies, low-intensity conflicts and revolutions, and War, Conflict, and Peace Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lanzona, Vina A.

Lanzona, Vina

Rettig, Frederik

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Militär- und Verteidigungstechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Women Warriors, Palace Guards, and Revolutionaries in a Region with Relative Gender Equality: Southeast Asian Exceptionalism? Vina A. Lanzona Part 1: Women Warriors in Ancient and Early Modern Southeast Asia 2. Querulous Queens, Bellicose Brai: Cambodian Perspectives toward Female Agency Trude Jacobsen 3. The Regio Femarum and its Warrior Women: Images and Encounters in European Sources Christina Skott 4. Javanese ‘Geisha’ Warriors? The Incomparable prajurit estri Ann Kumar Part 2: Southeast Asian Women Warriors and Revolutionaries in the Modern Period 5. Heroines, Forgotten, and Silenced Fighters: Insights into Women Combatants’ History in Aceh Elsa Clavé-Çelik 6. The Rani of Jhansi Regiment (1943-45) of the Indian National Army: ‘Mere Show’, Daily Realities, and Experiment for Post-Independence India and Southeast Asia Tobias Rettig 7. Three Women Guerrillas of the Communist Party of Malaya: Nationalist Struggle with an Internationalist Experience Agnes Khoo 8. ‘Minority Women’ and the Vietnam War on the Lao-Vietnamese Border: Personal Narrative and War Experience Vatthana Pholsena 9. Love and Sex in Times of War and Revolution: Women Warriors in Vietnam and the Philippines Vina A. Lanzona 10. The Aftermath for Women Warriors: Cambodia and East Timor Susan Blackburn 11. Brave Warriors, Unfinished Revolutions: Political Subjectivities of Women Ex-Falintil and Falintil-FDTL Combatants in East Timor Jacqueline Siapno 12. Rethinking the Historical Place of ‘Warrior Women’ in Southeast Asia Barbara Watson Andaya

Über Autor(innen)

Vina A. Lanzona is Associate Professor of History and the Former Director of the Center for Philippine Studies (2011–2015) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Author of Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines (2009), she is currently working on two book projects: on the participation of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the social history of marriage in the Spanish Philippines.

Frederik Rettig is co-editor of Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2005) and Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia (2020). He has published in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and in South East Asia Research, including a special issue in the latter. From 2007 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University.