In women's words : violence and everyday life during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, 1975-1999 /

"Drawing primarily upon oral history interviews, this study presents a woman-centred history of the Indonesian occupation. It reveals the pervasiveness of violence - as well as its gendered and gendering dynamics - within the social and cultural "everyday" of life in occupied East Tim...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loney, Hannah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Portland, Oregon : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.
Series:The Sussex library of Asian and Asian American studies
Subjects:
Women > Violence against > Timor-Leste.
Women > Timor-Leste > Social conditions.
Political violence > Timor-Leste.
Women > Political activity > Timor-Leste.
Government, Resistance to > Timor-Leste.
Femmes > Violence envers > Timor oriental.
Femmes > Timor oriental > Conditions sociales.
Violence politique > Timor oriental.
Femmes > Activité politique > Timor oriental.
Résistance au gouvernement > Timor oriental.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Autonomy and independence movements
Government, Resistance to
Political violence
Politics and government
Women > Political activity
Women > Social conditions
Women > Violence against
Timor-Leste > History > Autonomy and independence movements.
Timor-Leste > Politics and government.
Timor oriental > Politique et gouvernement.
Timor-Leste
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Our entire lives had changed completely"
  • "This is me" : women's narratives of the Indonesian occupation
  • "The bullets were just like leaves" : women's experiences of invasion and conflict
  • "We as women, we really, really suffered" : women and the violence of military occupation
  • "There was no escape" : women and everyday life under Indonesian rule
  • "And I started to understand" : women and the development of a culture of resistance
  • Conclusion : "The chance of a lifetime."

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