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GA-02959 2021 rel B

Global Gender: The Women's International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War (Gradskova, 2021)

Global Gender: the WIDF, the Global South and the Cold War (Gradskova, 2021)

Yulia Gradskova's 2021 monograph on the WIDF, the Global South and the Cold War, based on GARF, RGASPI and IISH archives: Soviet supervision, Cold War battles and relations with women from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Background on the WIDF in which Gerwani participated.

GA-02875 2022 rel A

Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno (Rahmanudin, 2022)

Gerwani as a political school of Islam in the Sukarno era (Rahmanudin, 2022)

Deden Rahmanudin, 'Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno' (Jurnal Kewarganegaraan 6:2, 2022), a literature-based article presenting Gerwani as a feminist movement and discussing it from an Islamic viewpoint (Sukarno's Sarinah, Hamka). Drawing on Wieringa and Lestariningsih, it recounts Gerwani's 1950 founding, MPs

GA-02905 2023 rel A

Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia (Leksana, 2023)

Grace Leksana's 2023 open-access monograph on Donomulyo, South Malang, a 'red area' with a 'hamlet of widows', using army archives and 38 life histories to argue memory of 1965 is 'embedded' in local patronage and class. Local study of remembering.

GA-03709 2023 Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949 (Amsterdam University Press / KITLV) rel B

Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949 (Oostindie et al. eds, 2023; catalogued for Francisca Fanggidaej)

Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949 (2023)

Open-access edited volume (Oostindie et al., KITLV/NIMH/NIOD, Amsterdam University Press 2023) on local experiences of the Indonesian revolution 1945-49. In Galuh Ambar Sasi's chapter on Yogyakarta (pp. 65-66) Suripno and Francisca Fanggidaej, 'heads of Pesindo', tour Republican towns after visiting Europe and India, r

GA-03710 2023 Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949 (Amsterdam University Press / KITLV) rel B

Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949 (Oostindie et al. eds, 2023; catalogued for Francisca Fanggidaej)

Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949 (2023)

GA-02859 2025 rel A

Transformasi Gerwani: Keterlibatan dalam Perjuangan Gender hingga Stigmatisasi Pasca 1965 (Aisyah, 2025)

Transformation of Gerwani: gender struggle to post-1965 stigmatisation (Aisyah, 2025)

Rania Dhiyaulhaq Aisyah, 'Transformasi Gerwani' (Jurnal Sejarah Indonesia 8:2, 2025), a literature-based article on Gerwani's pre-1965 gender activism (education, health, anti-polygamy, 1955 elections, PKI ties, congresses) and its post-1965 stigmatisation. It repeats Wieringa's finding that the Lubang Buaya sexual-vio

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East-South Women's Internationalism at the Cold War Periphery (Gradskova, 2025)

Yulia Gradskova's 2025 open-access monograph on 'East South' women's networks from the late 1950s to the 1980s through Tashkent and Havana, using GARF, WIDF and Radio Free Europe files. Background on socialist-bloc women's internationalism.

GA-02894 2026 rel A

Slave Labour and Silence in Plantungan Camp (Głąb, 2026)

Katarzyna Głąb's open-access article (June 2026) on Plantungan, the women political prisoners' camp in a former Dutch leprosarium, using 2018 interviews with survivors aged 81-89 and Mia Bustam's memoir; argues it worked through forced labour, sexual violence and memory erasure. Recent scholarship on Plantungan.