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Feminismus als Klassenfrage, Teil II (Ita Fatia Nadia, südostasien 2020)

Feminism as a Class Question, Part II (Ita Fatia Nadia, 2020)

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Part II of Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020): how the army and paramilitaries used sexualised violence to destroy Gerwani after Oct 1965, the Lubang Buaya slander and film, 1966 tattoo 'searches', and New Order redefinition of women's roles. In German.

Bagian II esai Nadia (südostasien 3/2020): bagaimana tentara dan paramiliter memakai kekerasan seksual untuk menghancurkan Gerwani setelah Okt 1965, fitnah dan film Lubang Buaya, 'penggeledahan' tato 1966, dan redefinisi peran perempuan Orde Baru. Dalam bahasa Jerman.

People

Ita Fatia NadiaOliver PyeSuharto

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Women's International Democratic FederationIndonesian National Armed Forces

Places

Bukit Duri PrisonIndonesia

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against GerwaniMass killings of 1965–66

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderkillings 1965–66propaganda and mediaNew OrderPlantungan and women prisonersmemory, testimony and justice

Tags

sexual violencesexual slandermotherhood ideology

Details

Date
2020
Creator
Nadia
Document type
journal article (magazine article / historical essay (online, part 2 of 2; translated))
Language
German; English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Germany
Period
1999–present
Source archive
heiUP / suedostasien (Heidelberg) · source link
Access
Downloaded 2026-10-15 via Nath's Chrome (see 'Download Log 2026-10-15.csv'; the entry could not be checked in the cloud copy of the October log). Open access: südostasien online (suedostasien.net), text under CC BY 4.0 as stated in the file; photographs © Fatia Nadia and © Anett Keller (all rights reserved). Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Nadia, I. F. (2020). Feminismus als Klassenfrage (Teil II) [Feminism as a class question (Part II)] (O. Pye, Trans.). südostasien, 3/2020. https://www.suedostasien.net
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements/Nadia (2020) - Feminismus als Klassenfrage (Teil II) (suedostasien 2020-3).pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.68) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: yes
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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