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- Apart and together: the Portuguese and the Dutch as neighbours in and around Timor in the nineteenth centuryPublication . Schouten, Maria Johanna ChristinaThe Dutch and the Portuguese, who claimed the suzerainty over diverse zones on the island of Timor, in 1859 divided the island between them in an official agreement, which subsequently underwent several adaptations. Portuguese Timor was far away from the rest of the Portuguese-controlled territories in Asia and Africa, and so it was very dependent on the Dutch East Indies, in the economical, communicational, and other respects. Influence of Dutch policy on Portuguese projects was also noticeable, such as during the term of office of Governor Afonso de Castro (1858-1863) and his projects to develop coffee cultivation. In the colonial ideologies of the Netherlands as well as the Portuguese the well-being of the natives was emphasized, though in reality the interests of the mother country were pre-eminent.
- The female prostitute as «the Other»Publication . Schouten, Maria Johanna ChristinaThe unconventional character of sex work often engendered images of female prostitutes as being anomalous persons. The professional activity then was believed to affect all aspects of life and personality of the sex worker. Inversely, a conviction has existed that only specific types of women, with certain physical and mental characteristics, will enter this trade. This notion of the female prostitute as The Other was particularly powerful in western thought at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, and in the paper the ideas of that period about the “otherness” in its various layers will be explored. This period was also the zenith of imperialism, the domination of Other people and inherently the sexual encounter of occidental men with oriental and African women. The images of these “exotic” women and the practice of prostitution in a colonial context is an additional topic in this paper, to be related with the ideas in Europe about sex work.