Women Warriors in Southeast Asia (Paperback, 1)

List of figures List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Glossary and abbreviations PART IIntroduction and background 1 Introduction: women warriors, palace guards, and revolutionaries in Southeast Asian history VINA A. LANZONA AND FREDERIK RETTIGPART IIWomen warriors in ancient and early modern Southeast Asia 2 ‘Lady Sinn’ (Xian Fu-ren ¿¿¿) and the sixth-century Chinese incorporation of a Southeast Asian regionGEOFF WADE3 Querulous queens, bellicose brai: Cambodian perspectives toward female agency TRUDE JACOBSEN4 The Regio Femarum and its warrior women: images and encounters in European sources CHRISTINA SKOTT5 Geisha warriors? The incomparable prajurit estri at the court of Mangkunegara I ANN KUMARPART IIISoutheast Asian women warriors and revolutionaries in the modern period 6 Heroines and forgotten fighters: insights into women combatants’ history in Aceh, 1873?2005 ELSA CLAVE7 Women in the early Vietnamese communist movement: sex, lies, and liberation SOPHIE QUINN-JUDGE8 Recruiting the all-female Rani of Jhansi Regiment: Subhas Chandra Bose and Dr Lakshmi Swaminadhan FREDERIK RETTIG9 Women guerrillas of the Communist Party of Malaya: Nationalist struggle with an internationalist experience AGNES KHOO10 Love and sex in times of war and revolution: women warriors in Vietnam and the Philippines VINA A. LANZONAPART IVThe 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 BLACKBURN12 Brave warriors, unfinished revolutions: political subjectivities of women combatants in East Timor JACQUELINE A. SIAPNOPART VConclusion 13 Rethinking the historical place of ‘warrior women’ in Southeast Asia BARBARA WATSON ANDAYAIndex