Maj Wechselmann

Category: journalist/writer/artist
Also written as: Maj Wechselmann

2014 – 2020

2 items

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Persisting Silence: Sexual Slander, Mass Murder, and The Act of Killing (Wieringa, 2014)

Persisting Silence: Sexual Slander, Mass Murder and The Act of Killing (Wieringa, 2014)

Wieringa (2014) uses The Act of Killing to argue Indonesian indifference to the film reflects the enduring success of the military's sexual moral panic against communism; discusses a director's-cut scene and levels of silence about Gerwani. Memory and silence.

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The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion (Wieringa, Archipel 99, 2020)

The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion (Wieringa, 2020)

Wieringa's five-page review (Archipel 99, 2020) of Maj Wechselmann's documentary The Women and the Generals, which shows the army fabricated the story that Gerwani seduced and castrated the generals at Lubang Buaya as the core of the propaganda campaign. Film review.