Katharine E. McGregor is a professor of Southeast Asian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is co-editor, most recently, of Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia: Across Time and Space.
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List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Name Order, Spelling, and Translations Abbreviations Introduction 1. Tragedy in the Balkans 2. History as Irony 3. Sublime and Grotesque 4. Modern Tragedy Coda: Death of a Poet Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
An innovative work with an original, comparative, transnational perspective and impeccable scholarship. The author navigates the history of sexual slavery and human rights activism in Indonesia deftly and with clarity." - Saskia Wieringa, University of Amsterdam "This is an absolutely outstanding work, an important and devastating account of more than a century of Indonesian history. Readers are given the full context of the conditions that made women and girls vulnerable to extreme exploitation once the Japanese army arrived, and then to silencing and shame under successive regimes until the present day." - Ruth Barraclough, Australian National University