Acknowledgements List of Figures Glossary and Abbreviations 1 Introduction Defining Experiences "Intimate Distance" as background Unnatural partnership: Women, political activism and feminism/s in Indonesia The female body, art and censorship in Indonesia Definitions and distinctions: Feminisms or gender? Methodology Selection of artists Book structure 2 Firing the Canon Indonesian Art Canons as Myth and Masculine Ideal Postcolonial masculinity, canon making and Indonesian modern art Truth and beauty: The early years of modern art in Indonesia "Representing Indonesian modernity" as canon-making Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru The legacies of GSRB Gender and avant-gardism in GSRB Ken Dedes and the gaze Concluding remarks 3 Haunting in the Archipelago Emiria Sunassa and Mia Bustam The dark archipelago: The narratives of Emiria Sunassa Reading the primitive Tracing the feminine: Emiria's nudes and native landscape The primitive and the feminine: Nationalism's internal others Painting ghosts: The narratives of Mia Bustam Sudjojono dan Aku: Becoming an artist Dari Kamp ke Kamp: Arts and politics Imprisonment Emiria and Mia: Exceptional women 4 Female Desire and the Monstruous-Feminine in the Works of IGAK Murniasih The monstruous-feminine in Murni's paintings Displacing desire: Sex and humour in Murniasih's works Women and desire in Bali Reading Murniasih: Framing desire Murniasih as an outsider artist? 5 Searching for the Feminine Motherhood and Maternal Subjectivity The changing representation of motherhood in Indonesian visual arts The maternal nude: Laksmi Shitaresmi Titarubi: Herstory in art Women, motherhood and political participation: Voice of the concerned mothers Political motherhood in the works of Titarubi Maternal Subjectivity: Women reading women Concluding remarks 6 Performing Feminism/s Performance Art and Politics in the Works of Kelompok PEREK and Arahmaiani Performance art in Indonesia Kelompok PEREK: Kelompok Perempuan Eksperimental (1998-) Challenging the status quo: The performances of Arahmaiani Global feminisms and Arahmaiani's politics of the body Religion and spirituality Performing feminism/s in Indonesian visual arts Concluding remarks 7 Conclusion Strategies of correction: Interventions in art history Strategies of Interrogation: Searching for the feminine Reading feminism/s in post-New-Order Indonesia Rearticulating feminine spaces in the Indonesian art world Bibliography Index.