Women in the Current of the Times (Sulami, 1995/2001)
Sulami's essay 'Perempuan dalam Arus Zaman' (written Dec 1995, published Aug 2001) surveying women's condition before globalisation using Kompas reports on rapes, Julia Suryakusuma's 1981 article and a seminar paper on women workers. Does not mention Gerwani.
Domestication vs revolutionisation of women's politics before G30S (Rahayu, 2017)
Ruth Indiah Rahayu's 2017 essay contrasting pre-G30S state instructions on women's organisations: the Army's domestication ('koncowingking', Panca Dharma Wanita) versus radicalisation tied to revolution, locating Gerwani's politics against the militarist model. Interpretive essay.
Women suppressed, women resisting (Historia, 2018)
Historia feature (2018) on how the New Order subordinated the women's movement after 1965, branding politically minded women 'like Gerwani' and portraying Gerwani as beautiful but cruel, and how independent organising revived from the 1980s. Draws on Suryakusuma and Murniati.
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