Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Grewal and Kaplan, eds., 1994)
1994 collection edited by Grewal and Kaplan, a founding text of 'transnational feminist practices', rejecting centre-periphery and global feminism in favour of mapping 'scattered hegemonies'. Theory background; no Indonesian content.
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Alexander and Mohanty, eds., 1997)
Routledge volume (1997) edited by Alexander and Mohanty proposing transnational feminism against the centre-periphery model of global sisterhood, with fourteen chapters on colonial legacies, identities and organising. Theory background; no Indonesian content.
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.
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
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.
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.
Forbidden Memories: Women's Experiences of 1965 in Eastern Indonesia (Kolimon et al., 2015)
English translation (Monash, 2015) of Memori-memori terlarang, research by women pastors and theologians of the JPIT network on women survivors, witnesses and perpetrators across East Nusa Tenggara (Sabu, Kupang, Timor, Alor, Sumba). Regional women's testimony on 1965.
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.
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.
Kristen Ghodsee's 2019 Duke monograph arguing socialist 'Second World' women, allied with newly independent states, shaped the UN Decade for Women and were then erased from feminist history. Background on socialist-bloc women's internationalism.
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.
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
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
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.
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