Chie Ikeya

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. ISBN 9781138061675

References

1. Trude Jacobsen (10 January 2014). "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).
2. Maurice Oscar Dassah (July 2011). "Book Review: Refiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma". Journal of International Women's Studies. 12 (4).
3. Henk Schulte Nordholt (2012). "Book Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma" (PDF). Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 168 (1).
4. Jonathan Saha (June 2012). "Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma". South East Asia Research. 20 (2): 291–3. JSTOR 23752543.
5. Hiroko Kawanami (5 November 2015). "Book Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma". Southeast Asian Studies. 1 (3).
6. Nick Cheesman (March 2012). "Review: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma". Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. 28.