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Article: The flaming womb: Repositioning women in early modern Southeast Asia.(Book review)
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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The flaming womb: Repositioning women in early modern Southeast Asia By BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. 335. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S002246340700029X
Barbara Watson Andaya, well-versed in Asian history ('Oceans unbounded: Transversing Asia across "area studies'", Journal of Asian Studies, 65, 4 [2006]: 663-90), takes on an expedition examining the nature of Southeast Asia as a region, the sources available for the study of its history, and the place of the female across space, time, and life within and without the region. Winnowing the varied data available to us, she presents a mosaic that is a social ...