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 | | These two ladies stood on different poles: Kartini, who lived in the middle of Javanese aristocracy, craved for more advanced Western education and feminism, while Lois Al-Faruqi, who lived in liberal America, condemned feminism which was thought to cause imbalance in social life in America. |
 | | With her literacy in Dutch, Kartini learnt about values and thought in Western world: literatures and magazines were giving her discourses on modernism, feminism and freedom of thought. |
 | | Abstract of her article is Kartini wants Javanese women to be educated with more advance level, Kartini wants higher education to be taught in Dutch language, Kartini wants Dutch books to be translated into Javanese, and so on. |
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