Forbidden Memories: Women's Experiences of 1965 in Eastern Indonesia (Kolimon et al., 2015)
English translation (Monash, 2015) of Memori-memori terlarang, research by women pastors and theologians of the JPIT network on women survivors, witnesses and perpetrators across East Nusa Tenggara (Sabu, Kupang, Timor, Alor, Sumba). Regional women's testimony on 1965.
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.
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.
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.