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Gerwani dan Perjuangan Politik Perempuan (Rio Apinino, IndoPROGRESS, 2013)
Gerwani and women's political struggle (Rio Apinino, IndoPROGRESS, 2013)
Rio Apinino's 2013 IndoPROGRESS review essay of the Indonesian edition of Wieringa's Gerwani study: the film's Lubang Buaya scenes, Gerwis's founding in Semarang on 4 June 1950, PKI influence and the persistent 'whore' stigma. Chapter-by-chapter summary.
Esai ulasan Rio Apinino 2013 di IndoPROGRESS atas edisi Indonesia studi Wieringa tentang Gerwani: adegan Lubang Buaya film, pendirian Gerwis di Semarang 4 Juni 1950, pengaruh PKI dan stigma 'pelacur' yang bertahan. Ringkasan per bab.
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- Date
- 2013
- Creator
- Apinino
- Document type
- web article (book review essay (online left-wing magazine))
- Language
- Indonesian
- Perspective
- Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- IndoPROGRESS · source link
- Access
- IndoPROGRESS, https://indoprogress.com/2013/10/gerwani-dan-perjuangan-politik-perempuan/, dated 16 October 2013, retrieved 2026-10-13; open access. Saved by Nath as a .txt web capture. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Apinino, R. (2013, October 16). Gerwani dan perjuangan politik perempuan [Gerwani and women's political struggle] [Review of the book Penghancuran gerakan perempuan: Politik seksual di Indonesia pasca kejatuhan PKI, by S. E. Wieringa]. IndoPROGRESS. https://indoprogress.com/2013/10/gerwani-dan-perjuangan-politik-perempuan/
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference/Apinino (2013) - Gerwani dan Perjuangan Politik Perempuan (IndoPROGRESS).txt
- OCR / text
- Good (0.965) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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