List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary and abbreviations
PART I
Introduction and background
1 Introduction: women warriors, palace guards, and revolutionaries in Southeast Asian history
VINA A. LANZONA AND FREDERIK RETTIG
PART II
Women warriors in ancient and early modern Southeast Asia
2 ‘Lady Sinn’ (Xian Fu-ren ¿¿¿) and the sixth-century Chinese incorporation of a Southeast Asian region
GEOFF WADE
3 Querulous queens, bellicose brai: Cambodian perspectives toward female agency
TRUDE JACOBSEN
4 The Regio Femarum and its warrior women: images and encounters in European sources
CHRISTINA SKOTT
5 Geisha warriors? The incomparable prajurit estri at the court of Mangkunegara I
ANN KUMAR
PART III
Southeast Asian women warriors and revolutionaries in the modern period
6 Heroines and forgotten fighters: insights into women combatants’ history in Aceh, 1873–2005
ELSA CLAVÉ
7 Women in the early Vietnamese communist movement: sex, lies, and liberation
SOPHIE QUINN-JUDGE
8 Recruiting the all-female Rani of Jhansi Regiment: Subhas Chandra Bose and Dr Lakshmi Swaminadhan
FREDERIK RETTIG
9 Women guerrillas of the Communist Party of Malaya: Nationalist struggle with an internationalist experience
AGNES KHOO
10 Love and sex in times of war and revolution: women warriors in Vietnam and the Philippines
VINA A. LANZONA
PART IV
The United Nations, Security Sector Reform (SSR), and the gendering of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR)
11 The aftermath for women warriors: Cambodia and East Timor
SUSAN BLACKBURN
12 Brave warriors, unfinished revolutions: political subjectivities of women combatants in East Timor
JACQUELINE A. SIAPNO
PART V
Conclusion
13 Rethinking the historical place of ‘warrior women’ in Southeast Asia
BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA
Index
Biography
Vina A. Lanzona is Associate Professor of History and the Former Director of the Center for Philippine Studies (2011–2015) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Author of Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines (2009), she is currently working on two book projects: on the participation of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the social history of marriage in the Spanish Philippines.
Frederik Rettig is co-editor of Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2005) and Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia (2020). He has published in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and in South East Asia Research, including a special issue in the latter. From 2007 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University.
