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Janda PKI: Stigma and Sexual Violence against Communist Widows following the 1965-1966 Massacres (Pohlman, 2015)
Janda PKI: stigma and sexual violence against communist widows (Pohlman, 2015)
Pohlman (2015) on 'janda PKI': women widowed in 1965-66 were doubly stigmatised as widows and as 'PKI' women demonised by Gerwani propaganda; four testimonies show sexual violence and exploitation. Gendered stigma analysis.
Pohlman (2015) tentang 'janda PKI': perempuan yang menjanda akibat 1965-66 mengalami stigma ganda sebagai janda dan sebagai perempuan 'PKI' yang didemonisasi propaganda Gerwani; empat kesaksian menunjukkan kekerasan dan eksploitasi seksual. Analisis stigma gender.
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- Date
- 2015
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (special issue on janda; gender history, oral history, feminist theory))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Taylor & Francis via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Taylor & Francis Online, Indonesia and the Malay World 44(128), DOI 10.1080/13639811.2015.1100873 (published online 7 December 2015); library-licensed PDF in Nath's Gerwani folder; retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Pohlman, A. (2016). Janda PKI: Stigma and sexual violence against communist widows following the 1965–1966 massacres in Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 44(128), 68–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2015.1100873
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2015) - Janda PKI, Stigma and Sexual Violence against Communist Widows following the 1965-1966 Massacres.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.967) · 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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