Fearless Speech in Indonesian Women&#039;s Writing

Jafar Suryomenggolo

doi:10.5771/9781793650542

Summary

By offering perspectives from Indonesian female workers, this book discusses the contemporary progress of working-class feminism from the Global South. It presents a critical reading of the socio-political conditions that allow female workers to narrate their lives and work as precariat labor toiling under the forces of globalization. Its analysis centers on their writings which appear in the form of legal documents, personal accounts, essays, and short stories. Thus, the book shows how these women change their situation by challenging the political order and demanding gender justice with their fearless speech.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5053-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5054-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 236
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. Abbreviations No access
1. Female Labor in Indonesia’s Modern History No access
2. Literary Liberation No access
3. Proletarian Writing, Feminist Reading No access
4. The Gendered and Class Politics of Malu No access
5. Female Workers and Unions No access
6. Fearless Speech No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. Ida Irianti and Her Time No access
  2. The Pembelaan as a Political Document No access
  3. The Making of a Female Labor Leader No access
  4. Workplace Changes and the Union’s Struggle No access
  5. The 1987 Strike and Its Aftermath No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Trauma and Writing No access
  2. Factory Work and Organizing No access
  3. The Strike and Its Aftermath No access
  4. Retaliation No access
  5. Aftershock and Surveillance No access
  6. Narrating Repression, Symbolic Disobedience No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. Freedom to Organize, Freedom to Express No access
  2. Articulating the Wrong and Its Challenges No access
  3. The Limits of the Government’s Circular on Sexual Harassment No access
  4. Beyond Print Media: Visual Campaign No access
  5. Organizing in the Zone and Beyond No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. A Deep-rooted Problem No access
  2. New Struggle No access
  3. Factory Work and Motherhood No access
  4. Working Conditions under Neoliberalism No access
  5. Factory-level Struggle No access
  6. Beyond Union Activism No access
  7. Defending Rights, Changing the Workplace No access
  8. Notes No access
1. 1. Catatan and Its Political Significance No access
  2. Beyond a Narrative of Suffering No access
  3. Sharing Problems, Learning about Rights No access
  4. Organizing and Its Challenges No access
  5. Raising Awareness, Demanding Rights No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Overseas Domestic Workers as Authors of Fiction No access
  2. Managing Life in Urban Hong Kong No access
  3. Alien Romance in Hong Kong No access
  4. Same-Sex Relationships: Tolerance and Sanctuary No access
  5. Moonlighting as Sex Workers No access
  6. Overseas Workers as Adventurous and Liberated Women No access
  7. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 201 - 210
Bibliography No access Pages 211 - 228
Index No access Pages 229 - 236