Maznah Mohamad is currently Honorary Fellow and formerly served as Associate Professor and Head with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. She has taught, researched and published extensively on the themes of gender, Islam, politics, sexuality and Malay manuscript traditions.Bahar Gürselis Associate Professor in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Her areas of interest include social and cultural history of the United States and Europe, nineteenth-century children’s literature, ephemera studies, visual culture and the representation of the East in the West.Suriani Suratmanis Senior Lecturer with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her areas of research are ethnic identities, (re)productions of portrayals of Malays and Malay femininities, gender relations and inequalities in Malay families and households.

• List of figures and table viiPreface and acknowledgement xList of abbreviations xiiGlossary of Malay terms used in the text xiii1 Introduction: The photo-archive and femininities in the Malay world 1MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMAN2 Re-curating and de-archiving many femininities through a virtual exhibition on Being and Becoming 23MAZNAH MOHAMAD3 Disrupting an imagined everyday life: Women’s work and place 52SURIANI SURATMAN4 Pursuing the woman in the white dress: Photography and (im)posed female images in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Malay world 77BAHAR GÜRSEL5 Constructing femininities and race through the postcard: What and who is the “Malay” woman? 101MAZNAH MOHAMAD6 From needlework to needling: Picturing and puncturing the schooling of girls in colonial Malaya and Singapore 137MAZNAH MOHAMAD7 Conclusion: Epilogue to other femininities and summary of themes 170MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMANIndex 185BK-

Maznah Mohamad is currently Honorary Fellow and formerly served as Associate Professor and Head with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. She has taught, researched and published extensively on the themes of gender, Islam, politics, sexuality and Malay manuscript traditions.Bahar Gürselis Associate Professor in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Her areas of interest include social and cultural history of the United States and Europe, nineteenth-century children’s literature, ephemera studies, visual culture and the representation of the East in the West.Suriani Suratmanis Senior Lecturer with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her areas of research are ethnic identities, (re)productions of portrayals of Malays and Malay femininities, gender relations and inequalities in Malay families and households.

• List of figures and table viiPreface and acknowledgement xList of abbreviations xiiGlossary of Malay terms used in the text xiii1 Introduction: The photo-archive and femininities in the Malay world 1MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMAN2 Re-curating and de-archiving many femininities through a virtual exhibition on Being and Becoming 23MAZNAH MOHAMAD3 Disrupting an imagined everyday life: Women’s work and place 52SURIANI SURATMAN4 Pursuing the woman in the white dress: Photography and (im)posed female images in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Malay world 77BAHAR GÜRSEL5 Constructing femininities and race through the postcard: What and who is the “Malay” woman? 101MAZNAH MOHAMAD6 From needlework to needling: Picturing and puncturing the schooling of girls in colonial Malaya and Singapore 137MAZNAH MOHAMAD7 Conclusion: Epilogue to other femininities and summary of themes 170MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMANIndex 185BK-

Maznah Mohamad is currently Honorary Fellow and formerly served as Associate Professor and Head with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. She has taught, researched and published extensively on the themes of gender, Islam, politics, sexuality and Malay manuscript traditions.Bahar Gürselis Associate Professor in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Her areas of interest include social and cultural history of the United States and Europe, nineteenth-century children’s literature, ephemera studies, visual culture and the representation of the East in the West.Suriani Suratmanis Senior Lecturer with the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her areas of research are ethnic identities, (re)productions of portrayals of Malays and Malay femininities, gender relations and inequalities in Malay families and households.

• List of figures and table viiPreface and acknowledgement xList of abbreviations xiiGlossary of Malay terms used in the text xiii1 Introduction: The photo-archive and femininities in the Malay world 1MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMAN2 Re-curating and de-archiving many femininities through a virtual exhibition on Being and Becoming 23MAZNAH MOHAMAD3 Disrupting an imagined everyday life: Women’s work and place 52SURIANI SURATMAN4 Pursuing the woman in the white dress: Photography and (im)posed female images in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Malay world 77BAHAR GÜRSEL5 Constructing femininities and race through the postcard: What and who is the “Malay” woman? 101MAZNAH MOHAMAD6 From needlework to needling: Picturing and puncturing the schooling of girls in colonial Malaya and Singapore 137MAZNAH MOHAMAD7 Conclusion: Epilogue to other femininities and summary of themes 170MAZNAH MOHAMAD, BAHAR GÜRSEL, AND SURIANI SURATMANIndex 185BK-