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GA-03053 2000 rel B licensed

A Study of 'Aisyiyah, an Indonesian Women's Organization, 1917-1998

A Study of 'Aisyiyah, an Indonesian Women's Organization, 1917-1998 (Ro'fah, 2000)

MA thesis (McGill, 2000) by Ro'fah on 'Aisyiyah, the women's wing of Muhammadiyah, from 1917 to 1998, covering the Old Order and New Order. Gerwani is treated as a rival within KOWANI in Ch. 2 (pp. 59-62): Gerwis founded 4 June 1950 and renamed Gerwani in 1954, its mass base among peasant women, literacy classes, marri

GA-03024 2005 rel B licensed

Political-Social Movements, Revolutionary, Indonesia (Wieringa, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, 2005)

Saskia Wieringa's Brill encyclopedia entry (2005) on women in Indonesia's revolutionary movements from Kartini to the New Order, noting the 1965 massacres spurred by accusations of sexual perversion against young communist women. Concise reference.

GA-03041 2005 rel B licensed

The Women's Movement in Indonesia, with Special Reference to the 'Aisyiyah Organization (PhD dissertation, Temple University)

The Women's Movement in Indonesia, with special reference to 'Aisyiyah (It, 2005)

Suraiya It's 2005 Temple University religion PhD dissertation on the Indonesian women's movement, with the Muhammadiyah women's section 'Aisyiyah as case study (Ch. 2 history from Kartini to the New Order; Ch. 3 religion and family law; Ch. 4-5 'Aisyiyah; Ch. 6 conclusion). Gerwani appears only in passing: Gerwis is li

GA-02876 2007 rel B licensed

Review of Elizabeth Martyn, The Women's Movement in Post-Colonial Indonesia (Agung Ayu Ratih, 2007)

Review of Martyn, The Women's Movement in Post-Colonial Indonesia (Ratih, 2007)

Agung Ayu Ratih's review (2007) of Elizabeth Martyn's book on the postcolonial women's movement, welcoming its recovery of 1950s activism as complementing Wieringa and confirming that Gerwani's destruction meant women's political retrenchment, with sharp critique of the core argument.