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“And not just the men, but the women and the children, too”: Gendered Images of Violence in Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Cambodian Cold War Museums
- SUVANNABHUMI
- Abbr : SVN
- 2020, 12(1), pp.7-47
- DOI : 10.22801/svn.2020.12.1.7
- Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
- Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
- Received : August 9, 2019
- Accepted : January 10, 2020
- Published : January 31, 2020
1California State University, USA
Candidate
ABSTRACT
This article is a sub-section of a comparative analysis of depictions of violence in Jakarta’s Museum of the Indonesian Communist Party’s Treachery, Ho Chi Minh City’s War Remnants Museum, and Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. In comparing these public history sites, I analyze how memories of mass violence were central to state formation in both Suharto’s anti-Communist New Order (1966-1998), the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976-present), and Cambodia since the collapse of Democratic Kampuchea (1979-present). While this comparison points out specific distinctions about the role of the military, the nature of revolution, and conceptions of gender, it argues for a central similarity in the use of a mythology of victimization in building these post-conflict nation-states. This article focuses on my gendered analysis of the use of images of women and children in each museum. Depending on context and political purpose, these museums cast women as tragic victim, revolutionary heroine, or threat to the social order.
My analysis of gender places stereotypical images of violence against women (the trope of women and children as the ultimate victims) in conversation with dark fantasies of women as perpetrators of savage violence and heroic images of women liberated by participation in violence.
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