GA-02941 2019 relevance B public
Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: Komnas Perempuan and the 1965-1968 Anti-Communist Violence (van Doorn-Harder, 2019)
Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: Komnas Perempuan and the 1965-1968 Violence (van Doorn-Harder, 2019)
Nelly van Doorn-Harder's 2019 article on how Komnas Perempuan took up 1965 women survivors (2006 delegation, 2007 report), arguing the violence and stigma were justified as 'purification' and Gerwani women were cast as 'the most impure of all'. Gender and religious logic of impurity.
Artikel Nelly van Doorn-Harder 2019 tentang bagaimana Komnas Perempuan menangani penyintas perempuan 1965 (delegasi 2006, laporan 2007), berargumen kekerasan dan stigma dibenarkan sebagai 'pemurnian' dan perempuan Gerwani dicap 'paling najis'. Logika kenajisan gender dan religius.
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- Date
- 2019
- Creator
- van Doorn-Harder
- Document type
- journal article (journal article (religious studies / gender and human rights))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- PUB Bielefeld (repository copy) · source link
- Access
- CrossCurrents (Wiley on behalf of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life), September 2019; open access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (PDF p. 1). Exact URL and DOI not recorded in the file; to add from Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- van Doorn-Harder, N. (2019). Purifying Indonesia, purifying women: The National Commission for Women's Rights and the 1965–1968 anti-communist violence. CrossCurrents, [vol. and issue not shown in PDF; probably 69(3)], 301–318. [DOI not shown in PDF; to verify]
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/van Doorn-Harder (2019) - Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women, Komnas Perempuan and the 1965-1968 Anti-Communist Violence.pdf
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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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