MORE THAN THE WEDDING RING:Engaged Women of the Indonesian Nation-State Formation, 1940s-1960s
| Autor: | Ningsih, Widya Fitria |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Geëngageerde vrouwen
levensverhalen natiestaatvorming dekoloniaal proces Koude Oorlog Derde Wereldvorming intersectionaliteit liefde burgerschap en transnationaal vrouwenactivisme Engaged women life stories nation-state formation decolonial process Cold War Third World formation intersectionality love citizenship and transnational women’s activism |
| Zdroj: | Ningsih, W F 2022, ' MORE THAN THE WEDDING RING : Engaged Women of the Indonesian Nation-State Formation, 1940s-1960s ', PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, s.l . |
| Popis: | The dissertation focuses on the engaged women of the Indonesian nation state-formation that was immensely affected by the intersection of the decolonial movement and the Cold War, which intertwined with the formation of the Third World (or in Soekarno’s term ‘the new emerging forces). The term “engaged women” is deliberate, not merely to refer to those women whose lives became entangled in the decolonial processes in Indonesia and during the Cold War, but also to acknowledge their marriages to Indonesian leftist nationalists. The dissertation bears the names of my select group of ‘engaged women’: Molly (Warner) Bondan (1912-1990), Trees Soenito-Heyligers (1915-2003), Carmel (Brickman) Budiardjo (1925-2021), Francisca Casparina Fanggidaej (1925-2013), and Francisca Pattipilohy (1926), who came from diverse backgrounds, classes, races, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities. I analyzed the life stories of these engaged women, the entanglement of their life stories with the decolonial movement, the Cold War, and the development of the Third World, and their engagements with respect to notions of love, hope, future, and citizenship. I address these issues by asking what each might mean to them, what kind of discourse they added to the related episodes and ideas, and how come their stories have been omitted from historiography. The attempt to fathom the various aspects of these engaged women required me to knit intersected theoretical concepts and approaches. The biographical approach based on archival research and interviews became the central tenet for this dissertation. The archival sources uncovered and used in this dissertation can be classified into private and public data categories. The private sources are mainly ego documents left behind by the women, as well as correspondence letters— their epistolary dialogues with friends, colleagues, and relatives. As for the public sources, I lean extensively on institutional archives, primarily those in the Archief Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging, Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) Collection, International Union of Students (IUS) Collection, and World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) Collection, all kept by the IISG. The engaged women’s life stories serve to advance our understanding of the narratives from the overlapping periods with respect to the decolonial movement, the Cold War, and the Third World formation, which have often been treated as independent processes. Their life stories also reveal how the decolonial movement managed to disrupt the existing social structure. It is evident when the society in this distinctive period was less antagonistic to the more liberal arrangement of their love/life, providing men and women with the freedom to choose their ideals of affection and empathy, as well as of free choices in marriage and family life, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality. The intersections of various socio-political categories initiated a discovery of “who they are”—the untangling of the complexities of their identities, statuses, ties, networks, and engagements. Further, their engagements show that the decolonial movement that emerged after the Second World War was emancipatory in various ways, providing us with sufficient evidence that a substantial fraction of the women from the new nations played a role in the transnational women’s movement. This evidence has even challenged conventional historical narratives of transnational feminism that originated in the struggle for women’s suffrage in Europe and America, where merely two periods of this movement were identified: the first and second waves in the 1930s and the 1960s, respectively, blatantly excluding the role and experiences of the women of the new nations. Thus, in the Indonesian women’s movement case, the second wave of feminism actually took place earlier than in the West. It was a “wave” that became entangled with the decolonial movement. |
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