Exploring Women’s Narratives on Conflict and Violent Histories

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10.2991/978-2-494069-63-3_8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Women Narratives; Conflict; Violent Histories

Abstract

This paper examines the complexities of writing women’s histories, particularly in the context of conflict and violence. The paper firstly describes the patriarchal structure that tends to marginalize and undermines women’s narratives in history. The same structure also highly affected gender-based violence that occurred widely during conflict and violence in Indonesia. The second part of this chapter describes the complexities in exploring women’s narratives. One of the reasons for this complexity is the distinct and specific ways that women take in telling their stories. Histories in the perspective of women are usually told in a private manner, sometimes trivial and anchored in objects. These distinctiveness should be seen as a way to give meaning of larger political events into everyday lives. Another reason for the complexity is the strong character of silence in women’s stories. We agree with that silence is not absence and that it can also be analyze in certain ways. Finally, this article also describes several ways to explore and analyze historical sources in order to place women as agents and in the center of Indonesia’s history.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Grace Leksana
AU  - Arif Subekti
AU  - Megasari N. Fatanti
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/26
TI  - Exploring Women’s Narratives on Conflict and Violent Histories
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Knowledge Sciences and Education (ICSKSE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 70
EP  - 77
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-63-3_8
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-63-3_8
ID  - Leksana2022
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