María Lugones's 2010 Hypatia essay on decolonial feminism and the colonial/modern gender system, arguing the human/non-human dichotomy shaped colonised sexuality. Theory background; no Indonesian content.
Vannessa Hearman's 2013 article on memories 'under duress', from interviews with over thirty ex-prisoners: screening and stigma forced concealment, name changes and silence; Gerwani appears via 'Leila' and 'Tuti' and Sukarno-era WIDF internationalism. Oral history methodology.
Pohlman's 2014 article arguing the 1965-68 killings were political genocide and that the military's post-coup propaganda, including fabricated stories, constituted incitement to genocide; critiques the exclusion of political groups from the Genocide Convention.
Lisa Lowe's 2015 Duke monograph arguing European liberalism, Atlantic colonialism, slavery and the East Indies and China trades are interconnected yet kept apart by the colonial archive. Postcolonial theory background; no Gerwani content.
Pohlman (2017), lead investigator on sexual crimes for the IPT 1965, argues rape and sexualised torture in 1965-70 detention were crimes against humanity, summarising fifty-eight case files (72% female victims, 85% naming soldiers or military police). Legal framing of sexual torture.
2017 Rowman and Littlefield volume edited by Margaret McLaren on decolonising transnational feminism under neoliberal globalisation, with ten chapters on epistemology and politics and a preface by Mohanty. Theory background; no Indonesian content.
Hearman's 2018 article on how 1965 survivors and NGOs shifted from an inclusive citizenship strategy (1998-2004) to a 'boomerang' appeal to international norms, with stalled domestic justice. Context on the post-1998 struggle for justice.
Viola Lasmana's 2018 USC dissertation reading literary, film and digital works as 'shadow imagination' counter-archives that talk back to the New Order master archive of 1965. Literary-cultural study; Gerwani peripheral.
Nelly van Doorn-Harder's 2019 article on how Komnas Perempuan took up 1965 women survivors (2006 delegation, 2007 report), arguing the violence and stigma were justified as 'purification' and Gerwani women were cast as 'the most impure of all'. Gender and religious logic of impurity.