1st Edition
Visual Interrogations of Femininities in the Malay World Camera, Chimera and Colonisation
List of figures and table vii
Preface and acknowledgement x
List of abbreviations xii
Glossary of Malay terms used in the text xiii
1 Introduction: The photo-archive and femininities in the Malay world 1
MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMAN
2 Re-curating and de-archiving many femininities through a virtual exhibition on Being and Becoming 23
MAZNAH MOHAMAD
3 Disrupting an imagined everyday life: Women’s work and place 52
SURIANI SURATMAN
4 Pursuing the woman in the white dress: Photography and (im)posed female images in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Malay world 77
BAHAR GÜRSEL
5 Constructing femininities and race through the postcard: What and who is the “Malay” woman? 101
MAZNAH MOHAMAD
6 From needlework to needling: Picturing and puncturing the schooling of girls in colonial Malaya and Singapore 137
MAZNAH MOHAMAD
7 Conclusion: Epilogue to other femininities and summary of themes 170
MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMAN
Index 185
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Biography
Maznah Mohamad
is currently Honorary Fellow and formerly served as Associate Professor and Head with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. She has taught, researched and published extensively on the themes of gender, Islam, politics, sexuality and Malay manuscript traditions.
Bahar Gürsel
is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Her areas of interest include social and cultural history of the United States and Europe, nineteenth-century children’s literature, ephemera studies, visual culture and the representation of the East in the West.
Suriani Suratman
is Senior Lecturer with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her areas of research are ethnic identities, (re)productions of portrayals of Malays and Malay femininities, gender relations and inequalities in Malay families and households.
