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GA-02945 1998 rel A licensed

Sexual Metaphors in the Change from Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order in Indonesia (Wieringa, RIMA, 1998)

Sexual Metaphors in the Change from Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order (Wieringa, RIMA 1998)

Published RIMA version (1998) of Wieringa's 1996 paper, revised after Suharto's fall: the New Order legitimated itself through the army's slander campaign against Gerwani, part of an 'extended coup' of Oct 1965-Mar 1967, with a compact Gerwani history. Companion to the 1996 draft.

GA-02919 2015 rel A licensed

Janda PKI: Stigma and Sexual Violence against Communist Widows following the 1965-1966 Massacres (Pohlman, 2015)

Janda PKI: stigma and sexual violence against communist widows (Pohlman, 2015)

Pohlman (2015) on 'janda PKI': women widowed in 1965-66 were doubly stigmatised as widows and as 'PKI' women demonised by Gerwani propaganda; four testimonies show sexual violence and exploitation. Gendered stigma analysis.

GA-02921 2016 rel A licensed

The Spectre of Communist Women: Sexual Violence and Citizenship in Indonesia (Pohlman, 2016)

Pohlman (2016) argues the demonisation of Gerwani created an enduring 'pathological discourse' constraining women's sexual and political citizenship; perpetrators invoked the slander to justify violence, as in the cases of Ibu Susiani and others.

GA-02952 2019 rel A

Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil (Wieringa and Katjasungkana, 2019)

Wieringa and Katjasungkana's 2019 Routledge monograph, from the IPT 1965 prosecution report, arguing the 'real coup' was the ousting of Sukarno through about a million killings enabled by propaganda about Gerwani's alleged sexual perversion; chapter 6 treats two sexual moral panics. Key analysis.