TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lai,Ah Eng
TI  - Peasants, Proletarians and Prostitutes: A Preliminary Investigation into the Work of Chinese Women in Colonial Malaya 
SN  - 9789971988388
AV  - HD6057.5.M4 L35 2015
U1  - 331.409595104 19
PY  - 1986///]
CY  - Singapore : 
PB  - ISEAS Publishing, 
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Employment
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Malaya
KW  - Women
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY AND CURRENCY --; I. INTRODUCTION --; II. PROSTITUTION --; III. MUI TSAI IN DOMESTIC SERVITUDE --; IV. TIN MINING --; V. RUBBER ESTATE PRODUCTION --; VI. AMAH IN PAID DOMESTIC SERVICE --; VII. MANUFACTURING --; VIII. OTHER ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES --; IX. CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; THE AUTHOR; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814345989
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789814345989
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