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The Spectre of Communist Women: Sexual Violence and Citizenship in Indonesia (Pohlman, 2016)
Pohlman (2016) argues the demonisation of Gerwani created an enduring 'pathological discourse' constraining women's sexual and political citizenship; perpetrators invoked the slander to justify violence, as in the cases of Ibu Susiani and others.
Pohlman (2016) berargumen bahwa demonisasi Gerwani menciptakan 'wacana patologis' yang bertahan dan membatasi kewargaan seksual dan politik perempuan; pelaku memakai fitnah untuk membenarkan kekerasan, seperti kasus Ibu Susiani dan lainnya.
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- Date
- 2016
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (special issue; sexuality studies, citizenship theory, history of 1965 violence))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- SAGE via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- SAGE Journals, Sexualities 20(1–2), DOI 10.1177/1363460716645789 (online 2016); library-licensed PDF (not open access) 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. (2017). The spectre of communist women, sexual violence and citizenship in Indonesia. Sexualities, 20(1–2), 196–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716645789
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2016) - The Spectre of Communist Women, Sexual Violence and Citizenship in Indonesia.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.963) · 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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