The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia 9780824864729

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The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia
9780824864729

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Barbara Watson Andaya

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Women and “Southeast Asia”
Chapter 2. Early Modernity, Sources, and Women’s History
Chapter 3. Women and Religious Change
Chapter 4. Women and Economic Change
Chapter 5. States, Subjects, and Households
Chapter 6. Women, Courts, and Class
Chapter 7. Being Female in “Early Modern” Southeast Asia
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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