One Hand Clapping: Indonesian Nationalists and the Dutch, 1939-1942

Monash Papers on Southeast Asia #5

by Susan Blackburn

95 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Susan Blackburn (formerly Susan Abeyasekere) is a researcher and academic with a focus on Indonesian history and politics, the Indonesian women's movement, and foreign aid. She has taught at a number of universities, including Victoria University of Technology, Griffith University, and—since 1991—Monash University, on topics such as development politics, gender in Asian politics, Southeast Asian politics, and foreign aid and non-governmental organizations. Some of the titles of books she has written or edited are Women and the State in Modern Indonesia (2004), Indonesian Islam in a New Era: How Women Negotiate their Muslim Identities (2007), and The First Indonesian Women's Congress of 1928 (2007).