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Not just fryers of bananas and sweet potatoes: Literate and literary women in the nineteenth-century Malay world

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I argue that women's literacy was more common than is usually supposed and that women engaged extensively with written literature, both as readers and writers. I also discuss the role of traditional Islamic education in transmitting literacy among girls. The article is based on the examination of a group of narrative poems written by women at the court of Penyengat.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 2010

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English

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00224634

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Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2010. pp. 153-172

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