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Article: Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia. (Book Reviews).
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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- June 1, 2002
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Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Edited by BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA
Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2000. Pp. xviii, 347. Maps, Notes, Index.
The twelve succinct essays in Other Pasts provide evocative fragmentary evidence about gender relations in Southeast Asia between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries. In so doing, the volume offers to the gender-parched field of Southeast Asian historical studies refreshingly saturating details about the relations between men and women. As Barbara Watson Andaya acknowledges in her comprehensive introduction, ...