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Original Articles

Winning the Vote for Women in Indonesia

Pages 207-218 | Published online: 09 Jun 2010

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  • I do not exclude myself from this criticism. When years ago I made a study of the Indonesian nationalist movement of the late 1930s, I completely overlooked the suffrage debate. (My PhD thesis was partially published under the name of Susan Abeyasekere, One Hand Clapping: Indonesian Nationalists and the Dutch, 1939-1942 (Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University) Clayton, 1976.)
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