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Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Annie Pohlman, 2015)
Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2015)
Annie Pohlman's 2015 monograph, the first book-length study of gendered violence in 1965-66, based on about 150 women survivors: patterns of arrest, torture, rape, sexualised mutilation, strip searches for the 'Gerwani mark', sexual slavery and 'wife-taking'. Key scholarly source.
Monografi Annie Pohlman 2015, studi buku pertama tentang kekerasan gender 1965-66, berdasar sekitar 150 perempuan penyintas: pola penangkapan, penyiksaan, pemerkosaan, mutilasi seksual, penelanjangan mencari 'tanda Gerwani', perbudakan seksual dan 'istri diambil'. Sumber ilmiah kunci.
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- Date
- 2015
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- book (monograph)
- 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)
- Pohlman, A. (2015). Women, sexual violence and the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. Routledge.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2015) - Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965 to 1966.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.958) · 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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