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Lubang Buaya: Myth, Misogyny and Massacre (Drakeley, 2007)
Drakeley's 2007 article analysing the army's Oct-Dec 1965 psywar 'Lubang Buaya horror story' as a misogynist attack on Gerwani and a driver of the killings, tracing escalating claims in Angkatan Bersendjata, Antara and others, including the 'confessions' of Djamilah, Sujati and Saina. Core analysis of the slander.
Artikel Drakeley 2007 yang menganalisis 'cerita horor Lubang Buaya' perang psikologis Angkatan Darat Okt-Des 1965 sebagai serangan misoginis terhadap Gerwani dan pendorong pembunuhan, menelusuri klaim yang meningkat di Angkatan Bersendjata, Antara dan lainnya, termasuk 'pengakuan' Djamilah, Sujati dan Saina. Analisis inti fitnah.
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- Date
- 2007
- Creator
- Drakeley
- Document type
- journal article (journal article (historical analysis of propaganda; revised version of a 1992 Sydney seminar paper, 1993 Women in Asia conference paper and 2000 Monash CSEAS working paper))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Australia
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- nobleworld.biz · source link
- Access
- Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship (Nebula 4.4, December 2007), open-access online journal; PDF created 2008. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Drakeley, S. (2007). Lubang Buaya: Myth, misogyny and massacre. Nebula, 4(4), 11–35.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Drakeley (2007) - Lubang Buaya, Myth, Misogyny and Massacre.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.966) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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