GA-02892 2004 relevance B public
The Intimacy of Terror: Gender and the Violence of 1965-66 in Bali (Dwyer, 2004)
Leslie Dwyer's 2004 article on the gendered violence of 1965-66 in Bali, framed by Ibu Ari, whose husband and brother were taken by PNI paramilitaries and who was sexually 'inspected'; argues women's silence is a culturally specific semiotics, not absence of memory. Fieldwork-based gender analysis.
Artikel Leslie Dwyer 2004 tentang kekerasan 1965-66 yang bergender di Bali, dibingkai kisah Ibu Ari yang suami dan saudaranya diambil paramiliter PNI dan ia 'diperiksa' secara seksual; berargumen kebisuan perempuan adalah semiotika khas budaya, bukan ketiadaan ingatan. Analisis gender berbasis lapangan.
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- Date
- 2004
- Creator
- Dwyer
- Document type
- journal article (journal article (online peer-reviewed journal; anthropology of violence and memory, based on ethnographic fieldwork))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
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- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Australia
- Period
- 1999–present
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- ANU Open Research · source link
- Access
- Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, issue 10, August 2004 (originally published with the assistance of Murdoch University); republished from February 2008 by Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific at intersections.anu.edu.au/issue10/dwyer.html. Open access. Saved as HTML in Nath's Gerwani folder; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Dwyer, L. (2004). The intimacy of terror: Gender and the violence of 1965–66 in Bali. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, (10). http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue10/dwyer.html
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Dwyer (2004) - The Intimacy of Terror, Gender and the Violence of 1965-66 in Bali.html
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- Good (0.963) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
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- condensed from full annotation
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