Jafar Suryomenggolo is associate member of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), Paris, France, and visiting research fellow at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Jeonbuk National University (JISEAS), South Korea.

Fearless Speech is a landmark study that explores the manifold ways and means by which Indonesian women workers reflect on, and advocate to improve, their living and working conditions. Through speeches, legal texts, essays, and fiction, these women wield their pens and engage creatively and critically with issues of work, family, activism, emotion, and writing. In so doing, they not only bear testament to, but are themselves the makers and promoters of, a vibrant, resilient working-class culture.

• List of Tables AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction Part 1. Defying Authoritarian Rule Chapter 1. Reinventing Defense Speech Chapter 2. Soliloquy of Disobedience Part 2. Negotiating NeoliberalismChapter 3. Zines of ContentionsChapter 4. Epistolary ProtestPart 3. Liberating Self Chapter 5. Journals for Rights Chapter 6. Fictions of FreedomConclusionBibliography IndexAbout the Author