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Women and the State in Modern Indonesia (Susan Blackburn, 2004)
Susan Blackburn's 2004 book on how Indonesian women's organisations and the state interacted over education, marriage, suffrage, polygamy, motherhood, work and violence from the colonial period to 2003. Standard background, with Gerwani as one actor.
Buku Susan Blackburn (2004) tentang interaksi organisasi perempuan Indonesia dan negara dalam pendidikan, perkawinan, hak pilih, poligami, keibuan, kerja dan kekerasan dari masa kolonial hingga 2003. Latar standar, dengan Gerwani sebagai salah satu aktor.
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- Date
- 2004
- Creator
- Blackburn
- Document type
- book chapter (scholarly monograph (thematic political history of women's organisations and the state, c. 1900 to 2003; Introduction, eight issue chapters, Conclusion, references, index))
- Language
- English; Indonesian; Dutch
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Cambridge Core via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Books Online / Cambridge Core (published online 2009), DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511492198. Library-licensed (subscription) e-book, not open access; each page carries the CUP copyright watermark. Print ISBN 978-0-521-84225-9 (hardback, 2004). Retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Blackburn, S. (2004). Women and the state in modern Indonesia. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511492198
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements/Blackburn (2004) - Women and the State in Modern Indonesia.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.952) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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