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GA-03436 1990-04-21 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 21 April 1990, S. 11: Alltag auf der Fraueninsel

Neues Deutschland, 21 Apr 1990, p. 11: Everyday life on the women's island

Neues Deutschland, 21/22 April 1990, p. 11 (Reportage): "Alltag auf der Fraueninsel" by Lothar Pilz on Bawean, a small Indonesian island nicknamed "Amazonica" because, with most men migrating to Java, Singapore and Malaysia for work, women outnumber men three or four to one and run daily life. It cites Indonesian journ

GA-01090 1990-07-09 Het Vrije Volk rel B

Lesbische vrouwen in Derde Wereld: vervolgd en erkend

Lesbian women in the Third World: persecuted and recognised

Het Vrije Volk interview feature (9 Jul 1990, p.10) by Canis Zijlmans on anthropologist Saskia Wieringa's research on lesbian women in the Third World. One passage mentions her research in Indonesia on the 'three-million-member' communist women's organisation Gerwani, wiped out after Suharto's takeover, and lesbian lif