Women Warriors in Southeast Asia

Vina A. Lanzona is Associate Professor of History and the Former Director of the Center for Philippine Studies (2011–2015) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Author of Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines (2009), she is currently working on two book projects: on the participation of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the social history of marriage in the Spanish Philippines.Frederik Rettig is co-editor of Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2005) and Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia (2020). He has published in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and in South East Asia Research, including a special issue in the latter. From 2007 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University.

• PART 1 Introduction and Background 1 Women Warriors, Palace Guards, and Revolutionaries in Southeast Asian History; PART II Women Warriors in Ancient and Early Modern Southeast Asia 2 ‘Lady Sinn’ (Xian Fu-ren ¿¿¿) and the 6th Century Chinese Incorporation of a Southeast Asian Region; 3 Querulous Queens, Bellicose Brai: Cambodian Perspectives toward Female Agency; 4 The Regio Femarum and its Warrior Women: Images and Encounters in European Sources; 5 Javanese Geisha warriors? The incomparable prajurit estri at the Court of Mangkunegara I; PART 3 Southeast Asian Women Warriors and Revolutionaries in the Modern Period 6 Heroines and Forgotten Fighters: Insights into Women Combatants’ History in Aceh, 1873-2005; 7 Women in the Early Vietnamese Communist Movement: Sex, Lies, and Liberation; 8 Recruiting the All-Female Rani of Jhansi Regiment: Subhas Chandra Bose and Dr Lakshmi Swaminadhan; 9 Women Guerrillas of the Communist Party of Malaya: Nationalist Struggle with an Internationalist Experience; 10 Love and Sex in Times of War and Revolution: Women Warriors in Vietnam and the Philippines; PART 4 The United Nations, Security Sector Reform (SSR), and the Gendering of Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) 11 The Aftermath for Women Warriors: Cambodia and East Timor; 12 Brave Warriors, Unfinished Revolutions: Political Subjectivities of Women Ex-Falintil and Falintil-FDTL Combatants in East Timor; PART 5 Conclusion 13 Rethinking the Historical Place of ‘Warrior Women’ in Southeast Asia