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A Fragment of a Story: Gerwani and Tapol Experiences (Pohlman, 2004)
Annie Pohlman's 2004 article on what happened to Gerwani women and other tapol at arrest, trial, detention and release, using Sulami's and Sudjinah's memoirs and interviews; notes no woman arrested over Lubang Buaya was ever tried for it. Early study of women prisoners.
Artikel Annie Pohlman 2004 tentang nasib perempuan Gerwani dan tapol lain saat penangkapan, pengadilan, penahanan dan pembebasan, memakai memoar Sulami dan Sudjinah serta wawancara; mencatat tidak ada perempuan yang ditangkap terkait Lubang Buaya yang pernah diadili untuk itu. Studi awal tahanan perempuan.
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- 2004
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- thesis (journal article (online peer-reviewed journal; history based on oral testimony, questionnaires and prison memoirs; revised from an Honours thesis))
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- English; Indonesian
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- Scholarship
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- secondary
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- Australia
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- 1999–present
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- 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 at intersections.anu.edu.au/issue10/pohlman.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)
- Pohlman, A. (2004). A fragment of a story: Gerwani and tapol experiences. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, (10). http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue10/pohlman.html
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2004) - A Fragment of a Story, Gerwani and Tapol Experiences.html
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- Good (0.945) · 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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