Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia: Across Time and Space

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Series Editor’s Foreword
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction: Gendered violence in the making of modern Indonesia
	Literature on gendered violence in Indonesia
	Overview of the book
	Note
	References
1. Narrating intimate violence in public texts: Women’s writings in the Sumatran newspaper Soenting Melajoe
	The press and the pen
	Restoring women’s agency in Minangkabau history
	Wellbeing and power (1912)
	A plea for remembrance (1916)
	Toward reform agendas (1918)
	Writing in a garden’s shadows
	Notes
	References
2. Living in a conflict zone: Gendered violence during the Japanese occupation of the Netherlands East Indies
	The system of enforced military prostitution and power relations in
Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies
	Women’s experiences and archival sources
	Accounts of kidnapping, rape and detention
	Accounts of women working in bars and hotels
	Accounts of abuse within camps of women, boys and girls
	Accounts of women in ‘live-in’ relationships
	Accounts of women’s experiences in Indonesian newspaper reporting
from the 1990s
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
3. Home at the front: Violence against Indonesian women and children in Dutch military barracks during the Indonesian National Revolution
	Barracks concubinage in Dutch military institutions in Indonesia,
1946–49
	Sites of transaction: barracks laundry work as an entry into sexual
relations
	The question of violence
	Conclusions
	Archives
	Notes
	References
4. The sexual and visual dynamics of torture: Analysing atrocity photographs from Indonesian-occupied East Timor
	Analysing atrocity images
	The East Timor torture photographs
	Sexual and visual dynamics
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. Memory on stage: Affect, gender and the performative in 1965– 66 survivor testimonies
	Gender-based violence and the anti-communist killings of 1965–66
	Theatre and memory works: representing historical trauma
	The plays
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6. Commemorating gendered violence two decades on: Chinese Indonesian women’s voices in the diaspora
	Violence against Chinese Indonesians in May 1998
	Human rights practices and commemorating sexual violence
	Commemorating gendered and ethnic violence in the diaspora
	Notes
	References
7. Caring for the un-speakable: Coercive pedagogies, shame, and the structural violence continuum in Indisch intergenerational memory work
	Indisch beginnings
	Indisch memory and genealogy work
	Intergenerational hauntings
	‘Indisch, Maar dan Anders’ (Indisch, but Otherwise)
	Intergenerational un-speakability: ghostly emanation of coercion
and shame
	Intergenerational work of care for the un-speakable
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
8. The politics of care: A case study of domestic violence in Aceh
	Methodological approach and the socio-historical context of Aceh
	The law stops at the door – violence ignored
	‘Tidak berdarah-darah’ – violence minimised
	‘Just not in the face’ – violence justified
	Implications for feminist theory
	Conclusion
	Interviews
	Notes
	References
9. Gendered violence, gendered care: Nonintervention, silence work and the politics of HIV in Aceh
	Aceh: a brief history
	Gender relations
	HIV/AIDS and health care
	Story 1: Jamilah
	Story 2: Putri
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Afterword: Gender, violence, power: The pervasiveness of
heteropatriarchal moral orders in Indonesia across time and space
	Note
	References
Index