GA-03047 2025 relevance C licensed / copyrighted
The Heteronormative Family as Moral Infrastructure: Citizenship and National Belonging in Indonesia
The Heteronormative Family as Moral Infrastructure: Citizenship and National Belonging in Indonesia (Mirna Nadia, 2025)
PhD dissertation (Sociology, Northwestern, Dec. 2025) by Mirna Nadia arguing the heteronormative family acts as 'moral infrastructure' of Indonesian citizenship, via the Marriage Law, the AILA judicial review, the Family Resilience Bill, women household heads and LGBT people. Gerwani appears only in ch. 1's history of the 1974 Marriage Law: it, with Perwari and Persit, opposed Government Regulation 19/1952 on pensions for second wives at the 1952 Bandung women's congress, and campaigned against polygamy (pp. 66, 77-78).
Disertasi doktor (Sosiologi, Northwestern, Des. 2025) oleh Mirna Nadia yang berargumen bahwa keluarga heteronormatif berfungsi sebagai 'infrastruktur moral' kewargaan Indonesia, lewat UU Perkawinan, uji materi AILA, RUU Ketahanan Keluarga, perempuan kepala keluarga, dan LGBT. Gerwani hanya muncul dalam sejarah UU Perkawinan di bab 1: bersama Perwari dan Persit menolak PP 19/1952 tentang pensiun istri kedua pada kongres wanita Bandung 1952 dan menentang poligami (hlm. 66, 77-78).
“Women's organizations such as Perwari and Gerwani actively advocated marriage-law reform, opposing polygamy; at the Bandung congress of November 1952 Perwari, Gerwani and Persit opposed Government Regulation No. 19 of 1952 (pp. 66, 77).”
People
Organisations
Places
Events
Topics
Tags
Details
- Date
- 2025
- Creator
- Nadia
- Document type
- thesis (thesis / dissertation)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (Columbia) · source link
- Access
- library-licensed (Columbia University Libraries); personal research copy Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.6 Theses and Dissertations/Nadia (2025) - The Heteronormative Family as Moral Infrastructure, Citizenship and National Belonging in Indonesia [ProQuest 3281642408].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.952) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.6 Theses and Dissertations
- Summary basis
- structured reading (introduction, chapter openings, conclusion and all Gerwani/women's-movement passages)
Related items
The Women's Movement in Indonesia, with special reference to 'Aisyiyah (It, 2005)
Suraiya It's 2005 Temple University religion PhD dissertation on the Indonesian women's movement, with the Muhammadiyah women's section 'Aisyiyah as case study (Ch. 2 history from Kartini to the New Order; Ch. 3 religion and family law; Ch. 4-5 'Aisyiyah; Ch. 6 conclusion). Gerwani appears only in passing: Gerwis is li
shared: Indonesian Women's Congress, Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia, Aisyiyah, Suharto
Years of Dressing Dangerously: Modern Women, National Identity and Moral Crisis in Sukarno's Indonesia (Sullivan, 2020)
Charles P. Sullivan's PhD dissertation (History, University of Michigan, 2020) reads Indonesian women's magazines (Wanita, Puspa Wanita, Varia) from 1945-66 to argue that the Lubang Buaya narrative about Gerwani worked as a 'post-text' of long-running anxieties over modernity, moral crisis and the 'Mother of the Nation
shared: Indonesian Women's Congress, Suharto, Saskia Wieringa, Fatmawati
Indonesian women rise up against Sukarno's second marriage
Le Lorrain (30 Sep 1954, p.10), Jakarta dispatch: Sukarno's secret June marriage to Hartini Suwondo has turned political after women's organisation Perwari asked government and parliament to regulate leaders' marriages and draw up a marriage law. It blames Sukarno for not warning Fatmawati. A committee defends his repu
shared: Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia, Fatmawati, Hartini Suwondo, marriage law and polygamy
A Study of 'Aisyiyah, an Indonesian Women's Organization, 1917-1998 (Ro'fah, 2000)
MA thesis (McGill, 2000) by Ro'fah on 'Aisyiyah, the women's wing of Muhammadiyah, from 1917 to 1998, covering the Old Order and New Order. Gerwani is treated as a rival within KOWANI in Ch. 2 (pp. 59-62): Gerwis founded 4 June 1950 and renamed Gerwani in 1954, its mass base among peasant women, literacy classes, marri
shared: Indonesian Women's Congress, Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia, Aisyiyah, Suharto
The Butterfly Effect: Stealth Politics by the Reformist Women's Movement (Puspita, 2023)
PhD dissertation (Northwestern, June 2023) by Sabina Satriyani Puspita in political science on how the 'reformist' women's movement wins policy change through 'stealth politics', using the 2021 Regulation 30 on campus sexual violence. Gerwani appears in historical chapters: the 1965 stigmatisation and the sexual-dance/
shared: Indonesian Women's Congress, Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia, Aisyiyah, Suharto
Gerwani (English Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-13)
English Wikipedia article on Gerwani (retrieved 13 Oct 2026), a long synthesis relying on Wieringa, Blackburn, Martyn and Drakeley, covering post-independence context, 1950 founding, activities and the 1965 destruction. Encyclopedic summary; flagged as needing citations.
shared: Indonesian Women's Congress, Saskia Wieringa, Susan Blackburn
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959 (Lin, 2020)
PhD dissertation (History, University of Washington, 2020) by Hongxuan Lin tracing the confluence of Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959, through vernacular print culture; it genealogises Sukarno's NASAKOM. Gerwani appears only briefly: citing Blackburn, it says millions joined for
shared: Saskia Wieringa, Susan Blackburn, Yogyakarta
Transformation of Gerwani: gender struggle to post-1965 stigmatisation (Aisyah, 2025)
Rania Dhiyaulhaq Aisyah, 'Transformasi Gerwani' (Jurnal Sejarah Indonesia 8:2, 2025), a literature-based article on Gerwani's pre-1965 gender activism (education, health, anti-polygamy, 1955 elections, PKI ties, congresses) and its post-1965 stigmatisation. It repeats Wieringa's finding that the Lubang Buaya sexual-vio
shared: Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia, Suharto, Saskia Wieringa, review