Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy

by Edwards; Louise

• ISBN13: 9780415332514
• ISBN10: 0415332516
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-25
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections,Women's Suffrage in Asiaengages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country case studies presented. It explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage. This book will be of huge interest to anyone studying Asian history, women's studies and Asian politics.

Author Biography

Louise Edwards is in the Faculty of Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xiii
Notes on contributors	xiv
Acknowledgements	xvii
1 Introduction: orienting the global women's suffrage movement	1	(23)
LOUISE EDWARDS AND MINA ROCES
Why have the Asian suffrage movements been ignored?	5	(3)
Theoretical challenges presented by Asian women's suffrage struggles	8	(5)
Women and citizenship: citizenship is a gendered project	13	(1)
Defining the 'modern Asian woman'	14	(2)
Dressing suffrage	16	(3)
Notes	19	(2)
Bibliography	21	(3)
2 Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? Defining 'the Filipino woman' in colonial Philippines	24	(35)
MINA ROCES
Introduction	25	(4)
Suffragists' dilemmas	29	(2)
Filipino men defining 'the Filipino woman'	31	(5)
Filipino women constructing 'the Filipino woman'	36	(6)
Dressing feminism, dressing suffrage	42	(6)
Conclusion	48	(1)
Notes	49	(5)
Bibliography	54	(5)
3 Chinese women's campaigns for suffrage: nationalism, Confucianism and political agency	59	(20)
LOUISE EDWARDS
Historical overview	59	(6)
Confucianism and women's suffrage	65	(3)
Nationalism and suffrage	68	(5)
Suffrage campaigns and social issues	73	(2)
Notes	75	(2)
Bibliography	77	(2)
4 Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia	79	(27)
SUSAN BLACKBURN
The 'date of victory' problem	79	(2)
Colonialism and suffrage	81	(2)
The role of the Dutch suffragists	83	(3)
The Indonesian women's movement, nationalism and suffrage	86	(3)
Other sources of support and opposition to women's suffrage in the Indies	89	(2)
Democracy and women's citizenship	91	(3)
Islam and women's role in politics	94	(3)
The place of women's suffrage in Indonesian historiography	97	(1)
Notes	98	(5)
Bibliography	103	(3)
5 Women's Suffrage in Viêt Nam	106	(21)
MICHELINE R. LESSARD
Representations of Vietnamese women	107	(3)
Women, education and the anti-colonial struggle	110	(4)
Mass media and the woman question	114	(3)
Anti-colonial women associations	117	(1)
Marxism and women suffrage in Viet Nam	118	(1)
Women's suffrage and Viet Nam's independence	119	(3)
Notes	122	(3)
Bibliography	125	(2)
6 Citizenship and suffrage in interwar Japan	127	(25)
BARBARA MOLONY
Theorizing citizenship	128	(1)
Background	129	(1)
The New Woman Association and citizenship rights	130	(2)
Civil rights in the early 1920's	132	(3)
The founding of the Women's Suffrage League	135	(4)
The election of 1928 and the 'Period of Hope'	139	(3)
Citizenship, subjecthood, or cooperation (1931-37)	142	(3)
Notes	145	(4)
Bibliography	149	(3)
7 Expanding their realm: women and public agency in colonial Korea	152	(18)
KEN WELLS
The suffrage question	153	(3)
Setting the stage: education and religion	156	(4)
Women's work and the ideological rift	160	(5)
Conclusion	165	(1)
Notes	166	(2)
Bibliography	168	(2)
8 The politics of women's suffrage in Thailand	170	(25)
TAMARA LOOS
Decentring the monarchy in Siam's history	173	(1)
Was King Mongkut a proto-feminist?	174	(3)
Decentring Europe in studies of suffrage	177	(2)
1932 in comparative perspective: did Thai women have a revolution?	179	(6)
Conclusion	185	(1)
Notes	186	(5)
Bibliography	191	(4)
9 Tradition, law and the female suffrage movement in India	195	(25)
GAIL PEARSON
Indian nationalism and suffrage struggles	197	(2)
Expanding women's electoral participation	199	(9)
Women suffragists and the burden of tradition	208	(5)
Conclusion	213	(1)
Notes	214	(3)
Bibliography	217	(3)
10 Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, 1888 to 1902	220	(20)
PATRICIA GRIMSHAW
Indigenous and settler suffrage in New Zealand and Australia	223	(2)
Racial anxiety and responses to women's political demands	225	(5)
Women's suffrage and racial hierarchies in Hawaii	230	(3)
Conclusion	233	(1)
Notes	234	(2)
Bibliography	236	(4)
Index	240