Giving for girls : reconsidering colonial civilizing missions in the Dutch East Indies through charitable girls' education
Published Online: 2018-06-26 ; This article compares two Protestant schools for elite indigenous girls in the Dutch East Indies. While both schools were financially supported by the colonial government, they emerged from Christian organizations and were partly dependent on voluntary gifts from the Netherlands and the colony. The article proposes to look at such philanthropic initiatives as integral parts of a larger colonial civilizing mission which was not limited to the colonial state. On the contrary, discourses about the implementation of “civilized” gender roles within indigenous families... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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De Gruyter
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27409965 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/59025 |