Elisabeth Armstrong's 2023 book reconstructing the Asian Women's Conference, Beijing, 10-16 Dec 1949, hosted by the WIDF and the All-China Democratic Women's Federation, with its 'inside/outside' praxis of women's anti-imperialism. Context for WIDF-Asia ties before Gerwis's founding.
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
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
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle's 2023 Stanford UP ethnography of feminist digital activists in the Global South who contest development discourse on 'women and ICT'; it shows how solidarity and pleasure, and uneasy alliances with funders, shape a 'feminist technological otherwise'. Includes a methods appendix.
Soe Tjen Marching's collection (Amsterdam UP 2017; Routledge 2025) of twenty survivor and descendant testimonies organised by generation, including 'Steel Women', and introducing the 'mutation of fear'. Summarises the 1965 slander of Gerwani; key testimony source.
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.
Sarah Sharma's 2026 Duke monograph reads Big Tech through feminist media theory, arguing that tech culture casts women and feminised labour as 'tools' of a patriarchal machine world (starting from McLuhan's 'sex organs of the machine world'); chapters on the 'woman in tech', domestic and basement tech, platform wealth