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Indonesian Women, the WIDF and the Struggle for Women's Rights 1946 to 1965 (McGregor, 2012)

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Katharine McGregor's 2012 article on Indonesian women's ties with the WIDF 1946-65: the federation gave Gerwani a 'political compass', and Gerwani used it to win support for anti-imperialist domestic struggles and by the early 1960s shaped WIDF priorities. Core source on Gerwani and the WIDF.

Artikel Katharine McGregor 2012 tentang hubungan perempuan Indonesia dengan WIDF 1946-65: federasi memberi Gerwani 'kompas politik', dan Gerwani memakainya untuk mencari dukungan perjuangan domestik antiimperialis serta awal 1960-an ikut membentuk prioritas WIDF. Sumber inti Gerwani dan WIDF.

People

Katharine McGregorSudjinah

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Women's International Democratic FederationIndonesian Women's Congress

Places

Indonesia

Topics

WIDF and international women's movementGerwani organisationpeace and anti-imperialismwomen's rights and emancipationcongresses and meetings

Details

Date
2012
Creator
McGregor
Document type
journal article (journal article)
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
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)
McGregor, K. (2012). Indonesian women, the Women’s International Democratic Federation and the struggle for ‘women’s rights’, 1946–1965. Indonesia and the Malay World, 40(117), 193–208. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2012.683680
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism/McGregor (2012) - Indonesian Women, the WIDF and the Struggle for Womens Rights 1946 to 1965.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.964) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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