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Indonesian Women and Anti-Imperial Activism and Thinking 1945 to 1965 (McGregor, 2016)
Katharine McGregor's Aug 2016 gateway essay to the Indonesia section of the Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires database: anti-imperial activism, Gerwani and the WIDF, source guide (Api Kartini, congress reports) and thematic analyses. Introduction for researchers.
Esai pengantar Katharine McGregor Agu 2016 untuk bagian Indonesia pangkalan data Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires: aktivisme antiimperial, Gerwani dan WIDF, panduan sumber (Api Kartini, laporan kongres) dan analisis tematik. Pengantar bagi peneliti.
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- Date
- 2016
- Creator
- McGregor
- Document type
- journal article (introductory essay to a digital primary source collection (online database essay))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
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- Citation (APA)
- McGregor, K. (2016). Indonesian women and anti-imperial activism and thinking, 1945–1965 [Introductory essay]. In Women and social movements in modern empires since 1820. Alexander Street.
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism/McGregor (2016) - Indonesian Women and Anti-Imperial Activism and Thinking 1945 to 1965.pdf
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- Good (0.944) · 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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