Papers

• Space and Place in the Production of Modern Malay Romance Alicia Izharuddin International Institute for Asian Studies

  Space and Place in the Production of Modern Malay Romance

• The Modern Woman on the Page: Questions of Religion and Gender in Indonesian Women’s Magazines, c.1920-1960 Kirsten Kamphuis Münster University

  I will speak about images from Christian and Muslim women’s magazines in Indonesia, between the 1920s and 1930s. I would like to discuss what these images can tell us about conceptions of gender and religious identity.

• Turning sacred places into tourist attractions: women going to temples and pagodas in the emerging tourism in Vietnam during the colonial period Thi Phuong Hoa Tran Hanoi University

  In Vietnam, women make up the majority of temple and pagoda visitors. During the colonial period, religious visits were associated with an emerging industry called tourism. New vehicles and new services were used to exploit the routes to religious places, where women emerged as potential visitors. Based on the press, literature, photos, my paper will look at new women images on the tours , expressing their new needs and desires, besides religious needs, such as the needs to be prominent and beautiful; need to make new friends, needs to be attracted.

Abstract

Keywords

• Discourse
• Gender
• Postcolonialism
• Print Culture
• Religion