Title: Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years
Author: Jean Gelman Taylor (ed.)
Publisher: Monash Asia Institute, 1999
ISBN: 0732611563
Condition: Paperback. New, minor shelf wear.

Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years brings together papers first presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia's Fourth Women in Asia Conference, which was held at the University of Melbourne in October 1993. The first half of the 20th century was a period of intellectual ferment in the new colonial state when thinkers, writers, politicians and workers of all religious and ethnic groups were debating and organising to generate a new society. Susan Blackburn, Charles Coppel, Janet Elliot, Anton Lucas and Jean Gelman Taylor examine the debates on women's suffrage, issues for the Sino-Indonesian woman, the female workforce and how women should represent the essence of the nation. Ailsa Thomson Zain'uddin constructs a memoir of Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo from her notes and personal correspondence.