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Review of Elizabeth Martyn, The Women's Movement in Post-Colonial Indonesia (Agung Ayu Ratih, 2007)
Review of Martyn, The Women's Movement in Post-Colonial Indonesia (Ratih, 2007)
Agung Ayu Ratih's review (2007) of Elizabeth Martyn's book on the postcolonial women's movement, welcoming its recovery of 1950s activism as complementing Wieringa and confirming that Gerwani's destruction meant women's political retrenchment, with sharp critique of the core argument.
Ulasan Agung Ayu Ratih (2007) atas buku Elizabeth Martyn tentang gerakan perempuan pascakolonial, menyambut pemulihan aktivisme 1950-an sebagai pelengkap Wieringa dan penegas bahwa penghancuran Gerwani berarti kemunduran suara politik perempuan, dengan kritik tajam atas argumen inti.
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- Date
- 2007
- Creator
- Ratih
- Document type
- journal article (book review (journal))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Cambridge Core via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Cambridge Core, International Review of Social History, DOI 10.1017/S0020859007102960 (library-licensed; may be freely available as a book review [to check]). Copy held in Nath's Gerwani folder; retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Ratih, A. A. (2007). [Review of the book The women's movement in post-colonial Indonesia: Gender and nation in a new democracy, by E. Martyn]. International Review of Social History, 52(2) [volume and issue not printed on the PDF; to verify], 315–317. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859007102960
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements/Ratih (2007) - Review of Elizabeth Martyn, The Women's Movement in Post-Colonial Indonesia.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.947) · 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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