GA-02922 2017 relevance B public
Finding a Way: Women's Stories of Daily Survival after the 1965 Killings (Pohlman, 2017)
Pohlman (2017) chapter on how women whose husbands were killed or detained in 1965-66 secured daily survival for decades under ET stamps and boycotts, with case studies including Ibu Arum, a plantation labourer. Women's post-violence survival.
Bab Pohlman (2017) tentang bagaimana perempuan yang suaminya dibunuh atau ditahan 1965-66 bertahan hidup sehari-hari selama puluhan tahun di bawah cap ET dan pengucilan, dengan studi kasus termasuk Ibu Arum, buruh perkebunan. Bertahan hidup perempuan pasca-kekerasan.
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- Date
- 2017
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- book chapter (book chapter (edited volume on genocide; oral history of women's post-violence survival))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Australia
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- UTS ePress · source link
- Access
- Chapter PDF (metadata title 'Genocide Perspectives V'; PrinceXML e-press edition, created 25 July 2019), probably from the open-access UTS ePress / Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies volume [verify]; in Nath's Gerwani folder; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Pohlman, A. (2017). Finding a way: Women's stories of daily survival after the 1965 killings in Indonesia. In N. Marczak & K. Shields (Eds.), Genocide perspectives V: A global crime, Australian voices (pp. 131–145). UTS ePress. [Book title from PDF metadata 'Genocide Perspectives V'; editors, subtitle, publisher and year supplied from outside the PDF: verify]
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2017) - Finding a Way, Women's Stories of Daily Survival after the 1965 Killings.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.954) · 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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