VREEDE-DE STUERS, Cora (née Suzanne Coralie Lucipara de Stuers). Bodegraven, South Holland 29.11.1909 — Baarn, prov. Utrecht 11.11.2002. Dutch Sociologist. Daughter of Eugène de Stuers (1879–1940), director of machine industry, and Susanna Teding van Berkhout. Educated in Utrecht, in 1928-35 studied art history, Malay and ethnology in Paris. Also worked as librarian in Paris 1932-36. In 1936 travelled with her husband via Egypt and India to Indonesia, where the husband had got a chair. During WW II in Japanese internment. From 1947-51 librarian of Bataviaasch genootschap in Batavia (Jakarta) and 1951-55 head librarian of Museum and Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta. Ph.D. 1957 Paris. From 1959 research scholar at Amsterdam, in 1969-73 Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology. Married 1933 Professor Frans Vreede (1887–1975).
Publications: Diss. L’émancipation de la femme indonesienne. 16+175 p. P. 1959.
– Het pad van de waarheid. Het leven van Mahatma Gandhi. 36 p. Deventer 1959.
– The Indonesian woman; struggles and achievements. 204 p. the Hague 1960.
– De Hindoese vrouw en moeder. Traditie en de okbeelden. 104 p. Amsterdam 1962.
– Parda: A Study of Muslim Women’s Life in Northern India. 12+128 p. Assen 1968.
– Girl Students in Jaipur. A Study in Attitudes Towards Family Life, Marriage, and Career. 12+141 p. 12 pl. Studies of Developing Countries 9. Assen 1970 (Dutch original 1968).
– Further works and articles, also on Near Eastern women.
Sources: Dutch Wikipedia.
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