{"product_id":"a-political-biography-of-the-indonesian-lesbian-bisexual-and-trans-movement-paperback","title":"A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSaskia Wieringa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding.\u003c\/b\u003e In the early 1980s, during the oppressive military dictatorship called the New Order in Indonesia, the first organizations of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans persons were established. They were short-lived, but prepared the ground for a more comprehensive LBT rights movement after the democratic opening of society in 1998. From 2000 to 2015 the visibility of the movement grew, until a vicious state-sponsored backlash set in, driven by majoritarian, fundamentalist Islamist groups. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaskia Wieringa tracks the movement's progress and explores the persistence of the butch\/femme model of relationships; the proliferations of identities; family violence and conversion therapy; religion; and the anti-LGBT campaign. In its insistence on the local dynamics of this movement, the book aims to debunk the idea that homosexuality is a Western import. Chapters deal with the many religious and secular phenomena that are linked with gender diversity and same-sex relations traditionally, and the erasure of many of these traditions is explained using the concept of postcolonial amnesia. \u003ci\u003eA Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement\u003c\/i\u003e is also a contribution to the growing literature on decolonization studies, pointing out that its dynamics, its historical course and its present condition, different as they are from the dominant Western view on a global LGBT movement, needs to be considered as valuable as accounts of Western LGBT histories are.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaskia E. Wieringa\u003c\/b\u003e is Honorary Emerita Professor of Gender and Women's Same-Sex Relations Crossculturally at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Wieringa is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Sexual History of the Global South \u003c\/i\u003e(Zed Books, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52931777298543,"sku":"9781350422841","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/QxgyauFG_89781350422841.webp?v=1775840845","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/a-political-biography-of-the-indonesian-lesbian-bisexual-and-trans-movement-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}