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Sexual Politics in Indonesia

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  • © 2002

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  1. Saskia Wieringa
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Part of the book series: Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (ISSTH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Unravelling Hidden Histories

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 1-26

  3. A Triple Loyalty: Feminism, Socialism and Nationalism

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 27-51

  4. The Garuda Takes Flight: From the Colonial Period to Independence

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 52-96

  5. The Old Order: Nationalism, Communism and Feminism

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 97-138

  6. Gerwani: Towards the Vanguard of the Women’s Movement

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 139-190

  7. Gerwani: Between the PKI and Sukarno

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 191-231

  8. Militant Mothers: Gerwani’s Ideology

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 232-279

  9. Gerwani Defamed, Sukarno Overthrown

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 280-335

  10. Epilogue

    • Saskia Wieringa
    Pages 336-346

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 347-390
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This book analyzes the interaction between nationalism, feminism and socialism in Indonesia since the beginning of the twentieth century until the New Order State of President Suharto. The focus is on the communist women's organization Gerwani, which was by 1965 the largest communist women's organization in the non-communist world. Gerwani members combined feminist demands such as a reform of the marriage law with an insistence upon a political role for women. The organization was destroyed in a campaign of sexual slander orchestrated by the military under General Suharto. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed. President Sukarno lost his power and General Suharto took over.

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'....provides an original and important gender analysis of the events of 1965-66, an analysis that has previously been neglected or suppressed. In so doing, it offers new and important details on a critial event in Indonesia's history as well as fascinating insight into the political history of Indonesian women's organization.' - Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, The Journal of Asian Studies

About the author

SASKIA E. WIERINGA is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She has published widely on these themes and is co-editor of the award-winning anthology Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures.

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