Visual Interrogations of Femininities in the Malay World

Camera, Chimera and Colonisation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvMaznah Mohamad,Bahar Gürsel,Suriani Suratman

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This book curates and examines colonial-era photographs from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries sourced from photo-archives of former British and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia, uncovering how femininities in the Malay world are represented through visual imagery and their role in shaping colonial social relations.Through seven thematic chapters ranging from colonial exhibitions to women’s work, fashion, postcard representation and girls’ schooling, the book demonstrates how photographs contain dialogic potential to question colonial power structures. Using visual ethnography and decolonial analysis, it reveals how the intersections of camera, chimera and colonisation subtly divided people along lines of race, class and gender. Although many subjects remain nameless, their images reveal layered narratives of colonial social formations and evolving national histories.This book is perfect for those studying visual ethnography, decolonial methodologies and the intersection of photography and colonialism in the Malay world, as well as scholars, postgraduate students and researchers in postcolonial studies, Southeast Asian studies, visual culture, gender studies and colonial history.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-27
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransforming Asia
Antal sidor196
FörlagAmsterdam University Press
ISBN9789463720199

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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-