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Ibu or the Beast: Gender Interests in Two Indonesian Women's Organizations (Wieringa, 1992)

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Saskia Wieringa's 1992 article comparing Gerwani and the New Order's PKK to criticise Molyneux's practical/strategic gender interests; contrasts Gerwani's alliance with Sukarno/PKI and democratic centralism with PKK's subordination via husbands. Foundational theoretical comparison.

Artikel Saskia Wieringa 1992 yang membandingkan Gerwani dan PKK Orde Baru untuk mengkritik konsep kepentingan gender praktis/strategis Molyneux; membandingkan aliansi Gerwani dengan Sukarno/PKI dan sentralisme demokratis dengan subordinasi PKK lewat suami. Perbandingan teoretis dasar.

People

Saskia WieringaMaxine MolyneuxSukarno

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Family Welfare GuidanceCommunist Party of IndonesiaGolkar

Places

Indonesia

Topics

Gerwani organisationtheory and methodNew Orderwomen's rights and emancipationmarriage law and polygamy

Tags

motherhood ideologyfeminism

Details

Date
1992
Creator
Wieringa
Document type
journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (comparative organisational analysis, feminist theory))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
UK
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
SAGE via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
Access
JSTOR (Feminist Review, Palgrave Macmillan Journals; library-licensed) [stable URL to record]. 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)
Wieringa, S. (1992). Ibu or the beast: Gender interests in two Indonesian women's organizations. Feminist Review, 41, 98–113. [DOI 10.1057/fr.1992.22, to verify]
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements/Wieringa (1992) - Ibu or the Beast, Gender Interests in Two Indonesian Women's Organizations.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.964) · 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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