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'Our Indies Colony': Reading First Wave Dutch Feminism from the Periphery

Deakin University, Australia

In contrast to the well-developed analysis of British feminism's implication in the late 19th- and early 20th-century reconstruction of the British national and imperial project, research into comparable areas of Dutch history are only just emerging. Taking as its starting point several conclusions drawn from postcolonial writing in the field of British imperialism, this article investigates an important moment in the history of Dutch feminism, the Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid, to examine Dutch feminism's complicity in the Dutch imperial project. Simultaneously, it examines the appropriation by colonial reformists of a 'maternalist politics' to redefine that project. In so doing, the article aims to focus attention on the interaction between metropolitan and colonial discourse and the place of maternalist politics in each. Further, the article briefly reflects on the significance for Indonesian women of the operation of such discourses in the colonial context.

European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4, 463-484 (1999)


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