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Kuntilanak Wangi: Organisasi-organisasi Perempuan Indonesia Sesudah 1950 (Wieringa, terj. Hersri Setiawan, 1999)

Kuntilanak Wangi: women's organisations in Indonesia after 1950 (Wieringa, transl. Hersri Setiawan, 1999)

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Hersri Setiawan's Indonesian translation (Kalyanamitra, Dec 1999) of Wieringa's 1988 working paper 'The Perfumed Nightmare' on Indonesian women's organisations after 1950, with a compact history of Gerwani and the Lubang Buaya slander. Accessible Indonesian-language Wieringa.

Terjemahan bahasa Indonesia Hersri Setiawan (Kalyanamitra, Des 1999) atas makalah kerja Wieringa 1988 'The Perfumed Nightmare' tentang organisasi perempuan Indonesia sesudah 1950, dengan sejarah ringkas Gerwani dan fitnah Lubang Buaya. Wieringa dalam bahasa Indonesia yang mudah diakses.

People

Saskia WieringaHersri SetiawanSukarno

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis)Women's Union of the Republic of IndonesiaAisyiyahIndonesian Women's CongressKalyanamitraCommunist Party of Indonesia

Places

IndonesiaSurakarta

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Gerwani organisationLubang Buaya and sexual slandermarriage law and polygamywomen's rights and emancipationhistoriography

Tags

translation

Details

Date
1999
Creator
Wieringa
Document type
book (translated working paper (booklet))
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)
Wieringa, S. (1999). Kuntilanak wangi: Organisasi-organisasi perempuan Indonesia sesudah 1950 [Perfumed nightmare: Indonesian women's organizations after 1950] (H. Setiawan, Trans.). Kalyanamitra, Pusat Komunikasi dan Informasi Perempuan. (Original work published 1988)
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.1 Gerwani and Indonesian Women's Movements/Wieringa (1999) - Kuntilanak Wangi, Organisasi-organisasi Perempuan Indonesia Sesudah 1950.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.938) · 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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