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Pengaruh Citra Gerwani terhadap Perkembangan Pergerakan Perempuan 1966-1998 (Retnoningrum, skripsi 2009)

Influence of Gerwani's image on the women's movement 1966-1998 (Retnoningrum, 2009)

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2009 Sanata Dharma history thesis by Elisabeth Retnoningrum on Gerwani's orientation, the New Order's spreading of a bad image of Gerwani, and later women's movement development; concludes the sexual mutilation story was untrue and legitimised the regime.

Skripsi sejarah 2009 Universitas Sanata Dharma oleh Elisabeth Retnoningrum tentang orientasi Gerwani, penyebaran citra buruk Gerwani oleh Orde Baru, dan perkembangan gerakan perempuan sesudahnya; menyimpulkan cerita mutilasi seksual tidak benar dan melegitimasi rezim.

People

Elisabeth Endah RetnoningrumSilverio R.L. Aji SampurnaHartini Sukarno

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis)Women's International Democratic FederationFamily Welfare GuidanceDharma Wanita

Places

YogyakartaIndonesia

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderpropaganda and mediaGerwani organisationNew Orderwomen's rights and emancipation

Tags

demonisationnew order narrativesexual slanderatrocity rumours

Details

Date
2009
Creator
Retnoningrum
Document type
thesis (undergraduate thesis (skripsi, S1 history))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Access
Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Retnoningrum, E. E. (2009). Pengaruh citra Gerwani terhadap perkembangan pergerakan perempuan di Indonesia tahun 1966-1998 [The influence of the image of Gerwani on the development of the women's movement in Indonesia, 1966 to 1998] [Undergraduate thesis (skripsi), Universitas Sanata Dharma].
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements/Retnoningrum (2009) - Pengaruh Citra Gerwani terhadap Perkembangan Pergerakan Perempuan 1966 to 1998 (Skripsi).pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.958) · 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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