Peasants, Proletarians, and Prostitutes: A Preliminary Investigation Into the Work of Chinese Women in Colonial Malaya

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Institute of Southeast Asian, 1986 - Social Science - 115 pages

 This book uses a socio-historical approach with feminist insight to examine the work of Chinese women in colonial Malaya, specifically those who worked as prostitutes, mui tsai, domestic servants, tin and rubber workers, hawkers and construction workers. The study questions the view that all women in traditional society were subordinated.

 

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Common terms and phrases

activities amah brothel keepers Cantonese capitalist category of women chai tang child labour Chinese labour Chinese women colonial government colonial Malaya colonial period Contagious Diseases Act context Development division of labour domestic servants domestic servitude dulang washing earnings economic employed employers employment ethnic factory Federated Malay female labour gender relations Hainanese hawking household ill-treatment Indian industry kongsi fong Kuala Lumpur labour power large numbers Leung Kuk living mainly majority Malay Malaysia male workers manufacturing marriage married mui tsai system old age organized paid domestic service Parmer Penang plantations Po Leung Kuk population position of Chinese production prostitution Protectorate Purcell reproduction roles rubber estate samseng secret societies sector sexual division Siew Singapore single women smallholders social relations southern China squatter Straits Settlements subordination of women taxi-dancers tin mining Topley traditional traffic in women Tufo unskilled various vegetarian halls wages wives women workers women's position

About the author (1986)

 Lai Ah Eng is currently a researcher in Singapore. Her current research interests include community, ethnic and gender relations in Malaysia and Singapore

Bibliographic information

TitlePeasants, Proletarians, and Prostitutes: A Preliminary Investigation Into the Work of Chinese Women in Colonial Malaya
Volume 59 of Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore: Research notes and discussions paper
Issue 59 of Research notes and discussions paper, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ISSN 0129-8828
AuthorAh Eng Lai
PublisherInstitute of Southeast Asian, 1986
ISBN9971988380, 9789971988388
Length115 pages
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Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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