Maiden Voyages: Eastern Indonesian Women on the Move

Catharina Purwani Williams

Maiden Voyages

Eastern Indonesian Women on the Move

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Catharina Purwani Williams

Publisher:: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Online publication date:: October 2015
Print publication year:: 2007
Online ISBN:: 9789812305688

Subjects:: Sociology of Gender, Sociology
Series:: Books and Monographs

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Maiden Voyages is a fascinating, unusual study of the centrality, impact and place of sea travel on the lives of women in Eastern Indonesia. It shows how women there travel constantly by sea, to move between islands, to urban centres and even overseas. In doing so, they negotiate and cross and re-make their social boundaries. In contrast to the dominant economic approach to migration, this book uses Eastern Indonesian women's own travel accounts to show how sea voyages recreate their identities. The book is based on research of contemporary rural and semi-rural women in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.This book is an original and valuable contribution to the debates on gender, subjectivity, and the local specificity. It aims to contribute to an understanding of women's mobility and spatial relations in Eastern Indonesia. It will be of interest to scholars of geography, migration, gender and microeconomics as well as of appeal to general readers.

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Eastern Indonesian Women on the Move

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Figures
pp ix-ix

List of Tables
pp x-x

List of Boxes
pp xi-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

PART ONE - DEPARTURE
pp 1-2

1 - Women, Space, and Travel
pp 3-10

2 - Charting the Routes
pp 11-34

3 - Situating Women and Their Travel
pp 35-76

PART TWO - JOURNEYS
pp 77-78

4 - Inter-island Travel: Women Negotiating Boundaries of Propriety
pp 79-106

5 - Travel to Urban Centres: Nurses and Teachers Mobilizing Selves
pp 107-128

6 - Travel Abroad: Recollections of Domestic Workers
pp 129-168

PART THREE - REFLECTIONS
pp 169-170

7 - Moving Forward: A Process of Becoming
pp 171-178

Bibliography
pp 179-202

Index
pp 203-211

About the Author
pp 212-212

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