This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed. Achievement and role of jilbab after the authoritarian regime of Soeharto in 1998 is hardly known. The author examines women perception but also the Sharia Ordinances and the narratives of censorship. Voices of both women and sexual minorities…
Healers on the colonial market is one of the few studies on the Dutch East Indies from a postcolonial perspective. It provides an enthralling addition to research on both the history of the Dutch East Indies and the history of colonial medicine. This book will be of interest to historians, historians of science and medicine, and anthropologists. How successful were the two medical training prog…
Dangerous Ideas explores sex and love, politics and performance, joy and anguish in a collection of essays focussed on the history and politics of the Women’s Liberation Movement and one of its offshoots, Women’s Studies, in Australia and around the world. These are serious matters: they are about tectonic changes in people’s lives and ideas in the late twentieth century, too little remem…
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an …
In 1901, R. W. Paul, one of Britain’s first filmmakers, released The Country man and the Cinematograph, a film that reflexively “explains” cinema just five years into this new narrative form. It depicts a country-man at the movies, who mistakes cinematic illusion for real-world phenomena: he attempts to dance with a lovely on-screen dancing girl and fless a filmic train se…
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics acr…
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth …
This open access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic groups that attract stereotypes which gloss over other personal factors such as age, class, gender and cultural differences. It discusses freedom of religion, and the Christian revival movement. It examines religious literacy and religious diversity in multi-faith schools. It looks …
Breastfeeding is the preferred method of feeding in early life. It is also one of the most cost-effective childhood survival interventions. Breastfeeding practices are important for preventing child mortality and morbidity, as well as ensuring the optimal growth, health, and development of infants. The public health benefits of breastfeeding have been well documented in the medical literature, …
In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary,…
This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force participation, the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market, and the impact of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment …
Drawing in contributions from the United States, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book seeks to foreground shifting experiences of teenage pregnancy and parenting in time and space. In the process, the work cuts across enduring ‘stigma’ contests and dominant discourses which seek to capture, understand and render fixable the ‘problem’ of teenage …
In Polish and Czech pedagogy, there have not been many studies on the social, cultural and educational functioning of academic youth in a culturally diversified environment. The analysis of identity behaviours presented by university students from the Polish-Czech borderland and of their learning potentialities will provide a chance for mutual recognition, understanding and the enrichment of bo…
Pada buku ini disajikan hasil penelitian naskah Bratayuda Sabil Khakuliah yang merupakan naskah tunggal (codex unicus) karya Raden Panji Suryawijaya yang ditulis pada tahun 1869. Penelitian ini merupakan langkah awal yang diharapkan membuka perspektif baru bagi studi sastra, khususnya dalam bidang khazanah sastra lama. Melalui penelitian ini, pemikiran, capaian kreasi, transformasi, dan nilai-n…
Bunga rampai Narasi Kebangsaan dalam Karya Budaya Indonesia hadir di tengah-tengah kegalauan dan hiruk-pikuk ancaman perpecahan yang kita hadapi. Lunturnya rasa kebangsaan, terutama pada generasi muda, menjadi tantangan tersendiri bagi bangsa. Bunga rampai ini hadir istimewa dengan menyajikan keberagaman objek kajian terkait konsep kebangsaan yang termaktub dalam berbagai karya sastra, baik dal…
Maraknya ketidakadilan yang dialami kaum perempuan berdasarkan kacamata keilmuan gender dan feminisme, khususnya mereka yang berkecimpung dalam bidang iptek, bukanlah sesuatu yang baru. Menjadi menarik manakala di hadapan kita tersaji wacana empiris mengenai pola dan struktur sosial masyarakat yang berkontribusi mengonstruksi suatu pandangan sehingga mengondisikan terciptanya tatanan masyarakat…
Kisah yang sedang Anda nikmati ini merupakan hasil saduran dari dua buah naskah klasik Melayu berjudul Syair Ken Tambuhan, nomor Ml.248 dan Ml. 718. Kedua naskah itu menjadi koleksi Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia. Seperti naskah-naskah lainnya yang terus dirawat oleh lembaga tersebut, keduanya merupakan salah satu bentuk kekayaan budaya Nusantara yang dapat dimanfaatkan isinya bagi pe…
Naskah Serat Sandi Wanita (selanjutnya disingkat SW) merupakan naskah koleksi perpustakaan pribadi Hartini. Naskah SW ditulis menggunakan aksara Jawa dan menggunakan Bahasa Jawa. Naskah tersebut memiliki ukuran 19,5 x 15 cm. Teksnya berukuran 14,5 x 11,5 cm dengan jumlah 13 baris setiap halaman dan memiliki ketebalan 254 halaman. Jumlah halaman yang ditulisi sebanyak 251 halaman dan yang kosong…
Babad Tawangalun merupakan naskah yang menceritakan nenek moyang keluarga Raja-Raja Blambangan yang bermula dari para Pangeran Kedhawung di abad ke-17. Silsilah Raja Blambangan dalam Babad Tawangalun ini mencakup rentang waktu lebih dari dua abad. Sebagai karya anonim, Babad Tawangalun memiliki beragam versi salinannya, baik dalam bentuk tembang (puisi) maupun gancaran (prosa). Babad Tawangal…
Versi bahasa Madura teks HMH ditulis dengan judul Carita Yajit Cilaka dengan kode Cod. 4963 (2) (Juynboll, 1907: 73). Brakel (1975: 123) menyebutkan bahwa teks ini masih sama sepeti asalnya meskipun terdapat perubahan-perubahan. Perubahan-perubahan yang dimaksud tak dijelaskan Brakel dalam bukunya itu. Selain itu, Brakel mengisahkan bahwa ketika dirinya bertugas di Perpustakaan Universitas Leid…