Women in the Current of the Times (Sulami, 1995/2001)
Sulami's essay 'Perempuan dalam Arus Zaman' (written Dec 1995, published Aug 2001) surveying women's condition before globalisation using Kompas reports on rapes, Julia Suryakusuma's 1981 article and a seminar paper on women workers. Does not mention Gerwani.
Chandra Mohanty's Feminism without Borders (2003): reprints 'Under Western Eyes', 'Cartographies of Struggle' and other essays criticising the monolithic Western view of the 'Third World woman' and global sisterhood. Theory background; no Indonesian content.
Historical formation of ibuism in Indonesia: the 1937 Marriage Bill debate (Hirano, 2005)
Hirano Keiko's Japanese article (2005) on the historical formation of 'ibuism', arguing the supposedly priyayi tradition was produced under colonial rule through the conflict over the 1937 monogamous marriage bill. Context on gender ideology and marriage law; Gerwani marginal.
Duke University Press book (2005) by M. Jacqui Alexander gathering essays on heteropatriarchy, neocolonial states and 'palimpsestic time' in the Bahamas, Trinidad and the US. Transnational-feminist theory; no Indonesian content.
Review of Blackburn's Women and the State in Modern Indonesia (Hattori, 2006)
Japanese review (Ajia Keizai, July 2006) by Hattori Mina of Blackburn's Women and the State in Modern Indonesia, with post-1998 context, chapter summaries and evaluation; Gerwani appears only in notes. Context rather than evidence. (In Japanese.)
Tempo, 1 October 2007: Aidit's face on celluloid
Tempo feature (1 Oct 2007) on how D.N. Aidit was portrayed in the New Order film Pengkhianatan G-30-S/PKI, via interviews with Syu'bah Asa, Danarto, Amarzan Ismail Hamid and Jajang C. Noer. Notes thin research and an invented chain-smoking Aidit; context for film propaganda.
The last night: after the headlights went out (Aidit's last night at home, Tempo, 2007)
Tempo piece (1 October 2007) reconstructing D.N. Aidit's last night at home, 30 September 1965, from his son Ilham and brother Murad. His wife Dr Soetanti Aidit angrily quarrels with him and urges him not to leave; he goes anyway. The article sets out the contested versions of where he went that night. Soetanti appears
Hopes for a better world: the early years of the WIDF 1945-1950 (de Haan, 2009)
Francisca de Haan's article (German, Feministische Studien 2009) on the WIDF's early years 1945-50: founding congress in Paris, leaders Cotton, Ibarruri and Popova, and the destruction of the US affiliate by HUAC. Background on the federation Gerwani later joined.