Women of the old Javanese period : their activities and roles from 9th to early 10th century inscriptions
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1993
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Suprodjo, Rita Fitriati
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This study is concerned with 92 inscriptions from the 9th to
early 10th century A.D. The main topic of this study is to
analyze the Old Javanese women's roles in the society. 29
inscriptions show women from this period can be categorised into
high and low status groups. Both groups are found involved in
social, administrative, religious, economic, and juridicial
activities.
The result of this study shows that Old Javanese women seem
to have been less equal to men, especially when we analyze how
many women were actively taking part in each activity. Almost in
every activity where women participated actively or passively,
they are mentioned as the wife of someone and usually their name
appeared after their husband's. This situation seems to indicate
that in the majority cases, women's titles function as the status
markers rather than role and function markers. The other
important finding is that the information given in those
inscriptions relates mainly to high status women and only for a
very limited range of situations.
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