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Two Indonesian Women's Organizations: Gerwani and the PKK (Wieringa, 1993)
Wieringa's 1993 article comparing Gerwani and PKK: Gerwani's growth from 500 Gerwis members in 1950 to a claimed 3 million, its campaigns, an eyewitness account of Lubang Buaya and the army's slander, ideology and a composite life history. Early comparative study.
Artikel Wieringa 1993 yang membandingkan Gerwani dan PKK: pertumbuhan Gerwani dari 500 anggota Gerwis 1950 hingga klaim 3 juta, kampanyenya, kesaksian saksi mata Lubang Buaya dan fitnah tentara, ideologi dan riwayat hidup komposit. Studi komparatif awal.
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- Date
- 1993
- Creator
- Wieringa
- Document type
- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (comparative historical-sociological essay based on interviews and fieldwork; revised version of a 1988 Leiden seminar paper and 1989 ISS working paper))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1980–1998
- Source archive
- Taylor & Francis via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Downloaded from Taylor & Francis Online (Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, now Critical Asian Studies), DOI 10.1080/14672715.1993.10416112; digitised version published online 5 July 2019; library-licensed (subscription) access. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Wieringa, S. E. (1993). Two Indonesian women's organizations: Gerwani and the PKK. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 25(2), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1993.10416112
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements/Wieringa (1993) - Two Indonesian Women's Organizations, Gerwani and the PKK.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.969) · 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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