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GA-00813 1949-12-07 De Waarheid rel B

Voorzitster Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging in Peking (Chairwoman of the Dutch Women's Movement in Peking)

Chairwoman of Dutch Women's Movement in Peking for Asian women's conference

De Waarheid report (7 Dec 1949) on arrival in Peking of WIDF secretary-general Vaillant-Couturier and 20 delegates to the Asian women's conference, greeted by Deng Yingchao. The delegate list includes Lillah Suripno from Indonesia alongside Dutch vice-chair Rie Lips-Odinot, Eslanda Robeson and women from France, Korea,

GA-00814 1949-12-09 De Waarheid rel C

Voor het eerst in Peking: Tentoonstelling over het leven van de vrouwen in Azië (Exhibition on the life of women in Asia)

First time in Peking: exhibition on the life of women in Asia

Short De Waarheid report (9 Dec 1949) on the exhibition on the life and struggle of Asian women and workers opened in Peking for the WIDF Asian Women's Conference, with material from the USSR, Mongolia, China, Korea, Vietnam, India, Indonesia and Iran. Speakers Li Dequan and Vaillant-Couturier stressed solidarity and n

GA-02140 1950-02-28 Soviet Woman rel B licensed

Soviet Woman, 1950: 'Women of Asia Fight for the Freedom and Independence of the Peoples'

Soviet Woman, 28 Feb 1950, p. 47: A. N. Atanepesova's account of the Conference of Women of Asian Countries, Peking, late 1949 (198 delegates). Indonesia appears via delegate 'Lilia Suripno', who described partisan women fighting Dutch troops with babies on their backs. Reflects early WIDF-linked Asian solidarity; Gerw

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.