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GA-02881 1999 rel A

Kuntilanak Wangi: Organisasi-organisasi Perempuan Indonesia Sesudah 1950 (Wieringa, terj. Hersri Setiawan, 1999)

Kuntilanak Wangi: women's organisations in Indonesia after 1950 (Wieringa, transl. Hersri Setiawan, 1999)

Hersri Setiawan's Indonesian translation (Kalyanamitra, Dec 1999) of Wieringa's 1988 working paper 'The Perfumed Nightmare' on Indonesian women's organisations after 1950, with a compact history of Gerwani and the Lubang Buaya slander. Accessible Indonesian-language Wieringa.

GA-02884 2002 rel A

Sexual Politics in Indonesia (Saskia Wieringa, 2002)

Saskia Wieringa's 2002 monograph, the foundational history of Gerwani: a semi-autonomous organisation with triple loyalty to feminism, nationalism and socialism, and the New Order's founding on manipulation of sexual symbols through the 1965 slander. Based on interviews with Umi Sardjono, Sulami, Sudjinah, Trimurti and

GA-03720 2004 Polity Press rel C

TechnoFeminism (Wajcman, 2004)

Judy Wajcman's 2004 Polity book argues that gender and technology shape each other: it critiques both cyberfeminist optimism and technophobic feminism and proposes 'technofeminism', drawing on science and technology studies to treat technology as both a source and a consequence of gender relations.

GA-03065 2005 rel C

Pedagogies of Crossing (M. Jacqui Alexander, 2005)

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.

GA-02920 2015 rel A

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Annie Pohlman, 2015)

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2015)

Annie Pohlman's 2015 monograph, the first book-length study of gendered violence in 1965-66, based on about 150 women survivors: patterns of arrest, torture, rape, sexualised mutilation, strip searches for the 'Gerwani mark', sexual slavery and 'wife-taking'. Key scholarly source.

GA-02954 2023 rel B licensed

Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949 (Elisabeth Armstrong, 2023)

Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949 (Armstrong, 2023)

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.

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)

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-03717 2026 Duke University Press rel C

Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech (Sharma, 2026)

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