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GA-02920 2015 rel A

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Annie Pohlman, 2015)

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2015)

Annie Pohlman's 2015 monograph, the first book-length study of gendered violence in 1965-66, based on about 150 women survivors: patterns of arrest, torture, rape, sexualised mutilation, strip searches for the 'Gerwani mark', sexual slavery and 'wife-taking'. Key scholarly source.

GA-03070 2015 rel C

The Intimacies of Four Continents (Lisa Lowe, 2015)

Lisa Lowe's 2015 Duke monograph arguing European liberalism, Atlantic colonialism, slavery and the East Indies and China trades are interconnected yet kept apart by the colonial archive. Postcolonial theory background; no Gerwani content.

GA-01589 2015-02-02 Batam Pos rel A

Batam Pos, 2 Februari 2015: 'Kamus Dunia: Gerwani'

Batam Pos, 2 February 2015: 'World Dictionary: Gerwani'

Batam Pos, 2 Feb 2015, p. 2: reference box 'Gerwani' (from Kamus Sejarah Lengkap) defining Gerwani as a PKI-affiliated women's organisation, recounting Gerwis's founding at Semarang on 4 June 1950 from six groups, with an archival photo of a marriage-law rally.