Women's history

Historical Books 

• Japan's Comfort Women : Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War Il and the US Occupation by Yuki Tanaka (2002)

• Comfort Women : Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II by Yoshiaki Yoshimi (2000)

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Journal Articles:

• Victim Silencing, Sexual Violence Culture, Social Healing: Inherited Collective Trauma of World War II South Korean Military "Comfort Women” by MiJin Cho

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Personal Accounts:

• Testimonies from Comfort Women 

Introduction: During the May 1998 riots in Indonesia, many women were sexually assaulted. In the aftermath of the riots, the women were silenced, the perpetrators met with no consequences, and key Indonesian government officials still deny the rapes till this day despite ample evidence from credible sources. 

Reports:

• Human Rights Watch reports: The Damaging Debate on Rapes of Ethnic Chinese Women 

• A Joint Fact Finding Team (TGPF) was appointed by the government in the direct aftermath of the riots. Their report officially verified at least 52 rape victims.

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Articles:

• Ita Martadinata, a 17-year-old activist who helped gather testimonies from rape victims, was murdered the day before she was supposed to give her own testimony to the United Nations: Remembering the victims of the May 1998 tragedy

• Indonesian minister faces backlash after calling 1998 mass rape a ‘rumour’ 

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Books:

• My Pain, My Country by Dewi Anggraeni (Historical fiction)

• Chinese Whispers by Rani Pramesti (Graphic novel)

• Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996-1999 by Jemma Purdey (Non-fiction history book)

Personal Accounts:

• Revisiting the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia: Civilians and Their Untold Memories

Historical Fiction​

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: a multi-generational glimpse into the lives of Korean women​

Women in STEM​

• Ada Lovelace: mathematician and world's first programmer

• The women behind Apollo 11

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General

• The importance of studying women's history

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American history​

• Women in the 19th Century US

• Indigenous women in Native American history

• Women under slavery in the US

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Asia

• Key Filipino women in history

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Ancient history

• Ancient Greek women

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