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Challenges of Political Rehabilitation: The Case of Gerwani (McGregor and Hearman, 2007)

Challenges of Political Rehabilitation: the case of Gerwani (McGregor and Hearman, 2007)

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McGregor and Hearman's 2007 article reading Sulami's and Sudjinah's memoirs as political rehabilitation: both arrested 1967, tried 1975 for subversion; they distance Gerwani from the PKI and answer the sexual slander. Second copy of the paper (South East Asia Research).

Artikel McGregor dan Hearman 2007 yang membaca memoar Sulami dan Sudjinah sebagai rehabilitasi politik: keduanya ditangkap 1967, diadili 1975 atas subversi; mereka menjauhkan Gerwani dari PKI dan menjawab fitnah seksual. Salinan kedua makalah (South East Asia Research).

People

SulamiSudjinahKatharine McGregorVannessa Hearman

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of Indonesia

Places

Indonesia

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against GerwaniTrial of four Gerwani women

Topics

memory, testimony and justiceLubang Buaya and sexual slanderarrests and detentiontrials (Mahmillub)historiography

Tags

commentarymemoirrehabilitationsexual slander

Details

Date
2007
Creator
McGregor and Hearman
Document type
journal article (journal article)
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
UK
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)
McGregor, K. E., & Hearman, V. (2007). Challenges of political rehabilitation in post-New Order Indonesia: The case of Gerwani (the Indonesian Women's Movement). South East Asia Research, 15(3), 355–384. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23750261
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/McGregor and Hearman (2007) - Challenges of Political Rehabilitation, The Case of Gerwani.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.936) · 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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