HOEDJIN: Eksplorasi Metode Penulisan Sejarah Perempuan

Abstract

This essay is an exploration of historical writings of women in Indonesian context. Through a
short fragment of Nie Hiang Nio, this essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of using
speculation and rhetorical strategy as a method of writing history of unknown women. An
exploration of this method helps historians to find creative solution in dealing with the stories
of ordinary women. Without falling into fiction, a literary style of women history can open
more conversations about the past and can become one way of feminist practices in writing
history, of which silences can be embraced through historical imagination.