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Gerwani dan Kepeloporan Perjuangan Politik Perempuan (Sundari, Jurnal Perempuan, 2016)

Gerwani and the pioneering of women's political struggle (Sundari, 2016)

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Akhiriyati Sundari's 2016 Jurnal Perempuan review of the Indonesian translation of Wieringa's Sexual Politics in Indonesia (Penghancuran Gerakan Perempuan, 2010), recounting the Lubang Buaya slander as staged in the film and Gerwani's pioneering role. Book review.

Ulasan Akhiriyati Sundari 2016 di Jurnal Perempuan atas terjemahan Indonesia Sexual Politics in Indonesia karya Wieringa (Penghancuran Gerakan Perempuan, 2010), menuturkan fitnah Lubang Buaya seperti dalam film dan peran perintis Gerwani. Ulasan buku.

People

Akhiriyati SundariSaskia WieringaSugiarti

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Institute of People's CultureInternational People's Tribunal 1965

Places

The HagueLubang Buaya

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Gerwani organisationLubang Buaya and sexual slanderhistoriographypropaganda and mediawomen's rights and emancipation

Tags

reviewsexual slander

Details

Date
2016
Creator
Sundari
Document type
web article (web essay / extended book review (Jurnal Perempuan blog section "Wacana Feminis"))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Jurnal Perempuan · source link
Access
Jurnal Perempuan website, Wacana Feminis section, https://www.jurnalperempuan.org/wacana-feminis/gerwani-dan-kepeloporan-perjuangan-politik-perempuan (posted 3 March 2016); open access; saved as plain text, retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Sundari, A. (2016a, March 3). Gerwani dan kepeloporan perjuangan politik perempuan [Gerwani and the pioneering of women's political struggle] [Review of the book Penghancuran gerakan perempuan: Politik seksual di Indonesia pascakejatuhan PKI, by S. E. Wieringa]. Jurnal Perempuan, Wacana Feminis. https://www.jurnalperempuan.org/wacana-feminis/gerwani-dan-kepeloporan-perjuangan-politik-perempuan
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference/Sundari (2016) - Gerwani dan Kepeloporan Perjuangan Politik Perempuan (Jurnal Perempuan).txt
OCR / text
Good (0.947) · 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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