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GA-02916 2008 rel B licensed

Testimonio and Telling: Women's Narratives of Genocide, Torture and Political Imprisonment in Post-Suharto Indonesia (Pohlman, 2008)

Testimonio and Telling: Women's Narratives of Genocide, Torture and Imprisonment (Pohlman, 2008)

Annie Pohlman's 2008 article adopting the Latin American genre of testimonio to analyse women's narratives of genocide, torture and detention in the absence of official inquiry; examines collective voice and discursive strategies around sexual violence.

GA-02919 2015 rel A licensed

Janda PKI: Stigma and Sexual Violence against Communist Widows following the 1965-1966 Massacres (Pohlman, 2015)

Janda PKI: stigma and sexual violence against communist widows (Pohlman, 2015)

Pohlman (2015) on 'janda PKI': women widowed in 1965-66 were doubly stigmatised as widows and as 'PKI' women demonised by Gerwani propaganda; four testimonies show sexual violence and exploitation. Gendered stigma analysis.

GA-03062 2020 rel A licensed

Years of Dressing Dangerously: Modern Women, National Identity and Moral Crisis in Sukarno's Indonesia, 1945-1966

Years of Dressing Dangerously: Modern Women, National Identity and Moral Crisis in Sukarno's Indonesia (Sullivan, 2020)

Charles P. Sullivan's PhD dissertation (History, University of Michigan, 2020) reads Indonesian women's magazines (Wanita, Puspa Wanita, Varia) from 1945-66 to argue that the Lubang Buaya narrative about Gerwani worked as a 'post-text' of long-running anxieties over modernity, moral crisis and the 'Mother of the Nation