GA-03467 1978 relevance B public
Asian Women and Political Repression (poem), Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, Vol. 4 No. 2, Winter 1978
Asian Women and Political Repression (poem), Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, Winter 1978
Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, Vol. IV no. 2 (Winter 1978, 'International Feminism'), carrying on p. 32 the poem 'Asian Women and Political Repression' by Sugiarti Siswadi, in which women declare they are no longer only wives of heroes but 'worker soldiers'. A headnote begins 'Mrs. Siswadi, a well-known Indonesian poet, was arrested ...' (cut off in the passage found). Gerwani is not named in the passages found.
Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, Vol. IV no. 2 (Musim Dingin 1978, 'International Feminism') memuat di hlm. 32 puisi 'Asian Women and Political Repression' karya Sugiarti Siswadi, yang menyatakan perempuan bukan lagi sekadar istri pahlawan tetapi 'prajurit pekerja'. Catatan pengantar dimulai 'Mrs. Siswadi, penyair terkenal Indonesia, ditangkap ...' (terpotong dalam kutipan). Gerwani tidak disebut dalam bagian yang ditemukan.
“Now we are no longer just giving birth to worker soldiers. We too are worker soldiers. No longer just wives of people's heroes we too are people's heroes. (p. 32)”
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- Date
- 1978
- Creator
- Sugiarti Siswadi
- Publication
- Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, Vol. 4 No. 2
- Document type
- periodical article
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Gerwani/PKI-aligned voice
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1967–1979
- Source archive
- Internet Archive · source link
- Access
- open access (Internet Archive) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/International press (1949-2000) - newspaper and magazine articles on Gerwani (ProQuest, Gale)/Quest, A Feminist Quarterly (1978) - Vol. 4 No. 2, Asian Women and Political Repression by Sugiarti Siswadi [archive.org].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › International press (1949-2000) - newspaper and magazine articles on Gerwani (ProQuest, Gale)
- Summary basis
- first 60k chars read + all Gerwani/member passages of the full text
Companion files
- GA-03468 Quest, A Feminist Quarterly (1978) - Vol. 4 No. 2, Asian Women and Political Repression by Sugiarti Siswadi [archive.org].txt
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