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The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion (Wieringa, Archipel 99, 2020)
The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion (Wieringa, 2020)
Wieringa's five-page review (Archipel 99, 2020) of Maj Wechselmann's documentary The Women and the Generals, which shows the army fabricated the story that Gerwani seduced and castrated the generals at Lubang Buaya as the core of the propaganda campaign. Film review.
Ulasan lima halaman Wieringa (Archipel 99, 2020) atas dokumenter Maj Wechselmann The Women and the Generals, yang menunjukkan tentara merekayasa cerita bahwa Gerwani menggoda dan mengebiri para jenderal di Lubang Buaya sebagai inti kampanye propaganda. Ulasan film.
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- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Wieringa
- Document type
- journal article (film review essay (review of a documentary, published in the journal's thematic dossier '1965 and Cinema II'))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- France
- Period
- 1999–present
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- OpenEdition Journals · source link
- Access
- Archipel 99 (2020), OpenEdition Journals, https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/1642, DOI 10.4000/archipel.1642. Open access; text under CC BY-ND 4.0. Cover sheet records connection on 10 July 2026; retrieved for this bibliography 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Wieringa, S. (2020). The women and the generals: Unraveling a myth of sexual perversion [Review of the documentary film The women and the generals, by M. Wechselmann, Dir.]. Archipel, 99, 23–27. https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.1642
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Wieringa (2020) - The Women and the Generals, Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.91) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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