Contents -- Preface -- I By Way of a Prologue and Epilogue: Gender, Modernity and the Colonial State -- After the 'The Family of Man' -- Women and the Colonial State -- Historical Context -- Contents -- Orientalism, Gender and Class -- Whiteness and 'European-ness' -- Colonial Modernity and Gender -- Nation-State and Female Colonial Citizenship -- II Female Labour in Twentieth Century Colonial Java: European Notions - Indonesian Practices -- Introduction -- European Notions -- Female Night Labour in the Netherlands Indies -- The Indonesian Practice: Figures from the 1920s and 1930s -- Analyses of Indigenous Agriculture -- The Census of 1930 -- The Coolie Budget Survey in Java 1939-1940 -- Concluding Remarks -- III 'So Close and Yet So Far': European Ambivalence towards Javanese Servants -- Introduction -- Sources and Their Authors -- 'Different' or 'One Step Behind'? -- Facts and Figures on Colonial Domestics -- Manuals and Advice Literature -- Children's Literature -- Servants in Youth Literature -- Concluding Remarks -- IV Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles -- Introduction -- European Women in the Colonial Community -- What to Wear? -- Shopping, Sewing and the Jahit -- The Illusion of Westernisation -- European Food -- In the Shadow of the Second World War -- Concluding Remarks -- V Feminism, Citizenship and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage in a Colonial Context -- Introduction -- Gender and Class in Representative Institutions -- The First Phase: 1908-1925 -- The Second Phase: In the Indies, 1925-1937 -- Indonesian and Colonial Feminism -- The First Female Member of the People's Council -- The Third Phase: 1937-1941 -- Winning the Right to Vote -- Concluding Remarks -- VI Marriage, Morality and Modernity: The 1937 Debate on Monogamy -- Introduction -- Marriage in Colonial Indonesia -- Indonesian Requests.

The Debate of the 1920s and 1930s: The Indonesian Perspective -- The Colonial Government's Position -- The Two Origins of the Draft -- Intersection of Gender, Race and Class -- Indonesian Reactions -- Islamic Arguments -- Secular Criticisms -- The Bangoen Affair -- Consequences -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.