Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-184) and index.
Contents:
Women and violence following the 1965 coup -- Getting caught and being killed -- The violence of detention -- Explaining sexual violence -- Sexual assaults during the killings and in detention -- Mutilation and sexual violence -- Humiliation and the strip-searching of women and girls -- Sexual slavery and istri diambil (wife-taking).
Summary:
"The Indonesian massacres of 1965-1966 claimed the lives of an estimated half a million men, women and children. Histories of this period of mass violence in Indonesia's past have focused almost exclusively on top-level political and military actors, their roles in the violence, and their movements and mobilization of perpetrators. Based on extensive interviews with women survivors of the massacres and detention camps, this book provides the first in-depth analysis of sexualised forms of violence perpetrated against women and girl victims during this period"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Asian Studies Association of Australia women in Asia series
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.