The following stories talk about the subject ‘Women’.
An intelligent young woman on the discourse and interplays of how things are constituted and gendered.
On the legal, economic, cultural and political issues of hot versus frumpy air hostesses.
The conundrum of a feminist woman seeking love, and the dismal male specimens on offer.
Expat D.C. Guy returns to the States, and western women, and bemoans the loss of the sultry pleasures of Jakarta and its womenfolk.
‘The Retreat’ by J. Eijkelboom, Part II, continued from Part 1.
Jan Eijkelboom was trained in England to ‘fight against the Japs’ but, as it happened, he was drafted to fight in the Indies when the Japanese had long gone. He arrived in Java in the middle of 1947 and served there as a sergeant for 2 1/2 years. In later life he functioned, inter alia, as editor of the renowned/notorious Amsterdam student paper “Propria Cures” and the leftist weekly “Vrij Nederland”. Apart from his journalistic activities he has published about half a dozen bundles of poetry. I have translated here his ‘short’ story “The Retreat” (“De Terugtocht”) that was first published in 1953 in the literary magazine “Libertinage”. It is rather a long “short story” and this is only the first part. Two or three more are to follow.
Indonesia ranks at the bottom for both womanly upper body pride and its manly lower counterpart.
I have translated part of a story entitled “The Clan” in which Willem Walraven tells us about his Indonesian in-laws. In the part I have translated we are told how he met his Sundanese wife Itih.
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