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Zulbainar, Perempuan Pejuang Masyarakat Marjinal sebagai Aktivis Gerwani (1961-1977)

Zulbainar, a woman fighter for marginal communities as Gerwani activist (1961-1977)

Journal article (2020) by Agustina and Fatimah, a biography of Zulbainar (b. 1939, West Sumatra), who joined Gerwani c. 1954, became treasurer of Gerwani Padang Pariaman, lost her husband to a mob in 1965 and was held 12 years without trial until 1977. Regional Gerwani life history.

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Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia (McGregor, Dragojlovic and Loney, eds., 2020)

Edited volume (Routledge, 2020; McGregor, Dragojlovic, Loney) linking domestic, military, legal and political violence in Indonesia; chapters include theatre from 1965 survivor testimonies. Gerwani relevant via 1965 gendered violence.

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Feminismus als Klassenfrage, Teil I (Ita Fatia Nadia, südostasien 3/2020)

Feminism as a Class Question, Part I (Ita Fatia Nadia, 2020)

Part I of Ita Fatia Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020) tracing the women's movement 1912-65 to Gerwani: peasant and plantation work, marriage and land reform, WIDF ties and 1.7 million members. Notes Kowani in the WIDF 1946-49 and Indonesian women at the WIDF secretariat. In German.

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Feminismus als Klassenfrage, Teil II (Ita Fatia Nadia, südostasien 2020)

Feminism as a Class Question, Part II (Ita Fatia Nadia, 2020)

Part II of Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020): how the army and paramilitaries used sexualised violence to destroy Gerwani after Oct 1965, the Lubang Buaya slander and film, 1966 tattoo 'searches', and New Order redefinition of women's roles. In German.