WIDF magazine 1958, International Women's Day feature 'Good Recipes around the World': tips on preparing vegetables and recipes from several countries, including two Indonesian dishes (beef fried with cloves and atjar cucumber salad), plus Bulgarian, Italian, Chinese. No Gerwani or political content.
WIDF magazine 1958, one page carrying two pieces: a profile of R. A. Kartini for Indonesia's Kartini Day (born 1879, regent's daughter, quoted letters on education, polygamy and anti-colonial sympathy, died aged 25), and 'The Growing Family of the WIDF' on new affiliations (India, Japan, Sudan, Cameroons, Senegal, Ceyl
WIDF magazine 1958, one page carrying two pieces: a profile of R. A. Kartini for Indonesia's Kartini Day (born 1879, regent's daughter, quoted letters on education, polygamy and anti-colonial sympathy, died aged 25), and 'The Growing Family of the WIDF' on new affiliations (India, Japan, Sudan, Cameroons, Senegal, Ceyl
Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part I (Sulami, 1959)
Part I of Sulami's 1959 history of the Indonesian women's movement in WIDF's magazine: Kartini, Putri Merdika (1912), Wanita Sedar, the 1928 Women's Congress, the Congress League of Indonesian Women, and demands on marriage, education and voting rights through 1941, with PKI influence noted after 1920. Prefaces the bir
Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)
Part II of Sulami's 1959 history: Indonesian women under Japanese occupation (Fujinkai, women coerced as 'geishas'), the 1945 proclamation, founding of Perwari (Klaten, Dec 1945), the formation of KOWANI (Solo, Feb 1946), its second congress at Madiun deciding to affiliate to WIDF, and women's role in partisan resistan
Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part III (Sulami, 1959)
Part III of Sulami's 1959 history: KOWANI conflicts and 1948 Solo congress, founding of Gerwis at Semarang (4 June 1950), its 1954 renaming as Gerwani, structure with six commissions, membership growth (6,000 Java 1951; 642,460 in January 1957; 700,000 at the Third Congress, Solo, Dec 1957), 1955 election results (5 MP
Sulami's 1960 piece 'Kartini' for the anniversary of R.A. Kartini: biography (b. 1879, child-marriage custom, letters, schooling of girls, marriage as Regent's wife), Kartini as symbol for Indonesian women's national and emancipation struggle, quoting Sukarno's 1959 lecture. Paired with a parallel profile of Egyptian f
Minah: short story (Sulami, 1960)
'Minah', a 1960 short story by Sulami in Women of the Whole World, winning that magazine's monthly contest. Set in colonial and Japanese-occupation Java: Minah fights for schooling at Kartini's school, is married off, then resists Japanese Commander Josida's attempt to take her as second wife; Josida is shot as the ind
WIDF magazine 1960 item on Hiroshima victims: a mother's letter to the Copenhagen international assembly of women recounts her 17-year-old daughter Hiroko Kajiyama's death from leukaemia on 5 April 1960, plus remarks on Japan's ratification of the US-Japan security pact. No Indonesian content or Gerwani mention.
Dance, Music, Architecture: Testimony to Indonesian Culture (Lüders and Bothas)
Women of the Whole World, 1961: staff writer Kate Lüders interviews Dagmar Bothas about a four-month government-guest visit to Java, Bali and Kalimantan, emphasising dance, music, temples and the literacy campaign (Minister Prijono). Gerwani appears only in a caption about May Day demonstrations; background material.
The dawn is breaking: short story (Sulami, 1961)
1961 short story 'The dawn is breaking' by Sulami, 'our Indonesian correspondent', in Women of the Whole World. Peasant woman Sarinah, active in the peasant organisation, explains the new Agrarian Act and land reform to village women, including women's right to own land and head households; landlords pay the government
In National Colours: Asian and African postage stamps (WIDF, 1961)
WIDF magazine 1961 stamp feature 'In National Colours' on postage stamps of newly independent Asian and African states, commemorating liberation, public works, agrarian reform, education and women (Mongolia, Korea, Ceylon, UAR, Vietnam, China). An Indonesian stamp is listed among liberation-themed issues. Gerwani is no
Indonesia: a new state with an ancient civilization (M. L. Huber, 1963)
Travel essay by M. L. Huber in Women of the Whole World, 1963, on a car journey from Jakarta toward East Java and Bandung, with a sweeping history of Indonesian civilisation, colonialism, the Round Table agreement and 1957 nationalisations, in a pro-Sukarno-era socialist-bloc framing. Gerwani is not mentioned.
The Need for Social Services in Indonesia: Gerwani kindergartens (WIDF, 1963)
1963 WIDF bulletin article 'The Need for Social Services in Indonesia': the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) and others push kindergartens. It reports a first National Seminar on kindergartens in 1959, teacher courses in 1961-62, the aim of one kindergarten per street, over 700 kindergartens (first started in 1951
Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on Working Women, Bucharest 1964
Proceedings volume published by the World Federation of Trade Unions (Prague, 1964) of the 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964: agenda reports, delegates' speeches, a Charter on the Economic and Social Rights of Working Women and a memorandum to the ILO.
The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Raksasataya, 1968)
Chapter 'The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women' by Amara Raksasataya in The Annals of the American Academy (Jan. 1968, 'Women Around the World'). Surveys Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam: equal legal rights but modest office-holding; Thailand as case study of indirect influence. For
The WIDF: History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991 (de Haan, c.2012)
Overview essay by Francisca de Haan (Women and Social Movements International database, c. 2012) on WIDF's origins, agenda, UN role and Cold War marginalisation, 1945-1991. Gerwani is listed once as a large, influential WIDF member organisation (with footnotes to Wieringa and to McGregor on Indonesian women and WIDF);