Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism

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.

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

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

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