Women Warriors in Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9781138829350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 306 str.

Opis

Based on multidisciplinary perspectives, this book brings together a wide range of case studies covering women as agents of violence in periods of armed conflict in Southeast Asia. It discusses why these women were active in a domain traditionally preserved for men, and how it arguably transgressed peacetime gender boundaries. Using a number of different sources, including epigraphs, royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs and interviews, the book looks at Southeast Asian woman in both ancient and modern times, and in a variety of roles, such as palace guards, guerrillas and war leaders. It questions what drove women to take on these roles, as well as to what extent were their experiences different to those of men. The book then goes on to examine how the women re-integrated into post-conflict societies. Written by an international team of scholars, the book will be of interest to scholars working on Southeast Asian Studies, Gender Studies and War and Conflict Studies.

Spis treści

PART 1 Introduction and Background  1 Women Warriors, Palace Guards, and Revolutionaries in Southeast Asian History; PART II Women Warriors in Ancient and Early Modern Southeast Asia  2 ‘Lady Sinn’ (Xian Fu-ren 洗夫人) and the 6th Century Chinese Incorporation of a Southeast Asian Region;  3 Querulous Queens, Bellicose Brai: Cambodian Perspectives toward Female Agency;  4 The Regio Femarum and its Warrior Women: Images and Encounters in European Sources;  5 Javanese Geisha warriors? The incomparable prajurit estri at the Court of Mangkunĕgara I; PART 3 Southeast Asian Women Warriors and Revolutionaries in the Modern Period  6 Heroines and Forgotten Fighters: Insights into Women Combatants’ History in Aceh, 1873-2005;  7 Women in the Early Vietnamese Communist Movement: Sex, Lies, and Liberation;  8 Recruiting the All-Female Rani of Jhansi Regiment: Subhas Chandra Bose and Dr Lakshmi Swaminadhan;  9 Women Guerrillas of the Communist Party of Malaya: Nationalist Struggle with an Internationalist Experience;  10 Love and Sex in Times of War and Revolution: Women Warriors in Vietnam and the Philippines;  PART 4 The United Nations, Security Sector Reform (SSR), and the Gendering of Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR)  11 The Aftermath for Women Warriors: Cambodia and East Timor;  12 Brave Warriors, Unfinished Revolutions: Political Subjectivities of Women Ex-Falintil and Falintil-FDTL Combatants in East Timor;  PART 5 Conclusion  13 Rethinking the Historical Place of ‘Warrior Women’ in Southeast Asia