Sex, Power and Nation
Author: Julia I. Suryakusuma
Publisher: Metafor Publishing 2004, 452 pages

EVERY age produces its own subversive mind. A critical mind can’t be defeated by authoritarianism. On the contrary, it will continue on until the iron law of history carries it to the finish line. A contest of ideas, that’s the strategy pursued by the intellectuals in the fight against despotism.

Writing at a time when reasoning is an