Francisca de Haan

Category: scholar/researcher
Nationality: Dutch
Biography: Historian of the Women's International Democratic Federation.
Biografi: Sejarawan Gabungan Wanita Demokratis Sedunia (WIDF).
Also written as: Francisca de Haan

2009 – 2018

Often appears with

Women's International Democratic Federation 3

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GA-02955 2009 rel C

Hoffnungen auf eine bessere Welt: Die frühen Jahre der IDFF-WIDF (1945-1950) (de Haan, 2009)

Hopes for a better world: the early years of the WIDF 1945-1950 (de Haan, 2009)

Francisca de Haan's article (German, Feministische Studien 2009) on the WIDF's early years 1945-50: founding congress in Paris, leaders Cotton, Ibarruri and Popova, and the destruction of the US affiliate by HUAC. Background on the federation Gerwani later joined.

GA-02957 2012 rel B licensed

The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF): History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991

The WIDF: History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991 (de Haan, c.2012)

Overview essay by Francisca de Haan (Women and Social Movements International database, c. 2012) on WIDF's origins, agenda, UN role and Cold War marginalisation, 1945-1991. Gerwani is listed once as a large, influential WIDF member organisation (with footnotes to Wieringa and to McGregor on Indonesian women and WIDF);

GA-02956 2018 rel B licensed

The Global Left-Feminist 1960s: From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York (de Haan, 2018)

Francisca de Haan's 2018 chapter proposing a 'global left-feminist 1960s' led by the WIDF network, from the 1953 Copenhagen Congress (whose declaration reached Indonesia) to the 1963 Moscow congress. Frames WIDF transnationalism relevant to Gerwani.