Chie Ikeya Explained

Chie Ikeya is a historian of Southeast Asia. She is Associate Professor of Asian and women's and gender history in the Department of History at Rutgers University.

Ikeya's first book – a monograph on 'women, colonialism and modernity' in colonial Burma – was well-received. One reviewer called it "one of the most important books on colonial Burma to have emerged in the last century".^[1] Other reviewers called it a "social historical masterpiece",^[2] a "wonderful book",^[3] a "sophisticated, nuanced work",^[4] and an "excellent book".^[5] Another reviewer, despite specific criticisms, welcomed "an important and distinctive contribution [...] original, lucid and well researched".^[6]

Books

• Refiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011.
• (ed. with Lyn Parker and Laura Dales) Contestations Over Gender in Asia. Routledge, 2017.

Notes and References

1. Trude Jacobsen . Myanmar. Reconfiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma. By Chie Ikeya. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. Pp 239. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. . Journal of Southeast Asian Studies . 45 . 1 . 10 January 2014 .
2. Maurice Oscar Dassah . Book Review: Refiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma . Journal of International Women's Studies . 12 . 4 . July 2011 .
3. Henk Schulte Nordholt . Book Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma . Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde . 168 . 1 . 2012 .
4. Jonathan Saha . Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma . South East Asia Research . 20 . 2 . June 2012 . 291–3 . 23752543 .
5. Hiroko Kawanami . Book Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma . Southeast Asian Studies . 1 . 3 . 5 November 2015 .
6. Nick Cheesman . Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma . Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific . 28 . March 2012 .