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Reading contemporary Indonesian Muslim women writers
representation, identity and religion of Muslim women in Indonesian fiction
The first study to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in the works of contemporary Indonesian Muslim female writers.
Introduction -- Reading Women Reading Writings: Feminist Literary Criticism at Stake -- The Politics of Literature -- Between Facts and Fiction: The Problematic Images of Women in Fiction -- Constructing/Reconstructing Women: Women Reading/Writing Women -- Identity Politics -- A Gaze of Her Own: Authority and Subject Position(s) -- From Private to Public -- 1. Contemporary Issues of Women and Islam in Muslim Societies -- Reinterpretation of the Qur'an -- Social Reforms -- The Politics of the Veil -- Legal Reforms -- Educational Reforms -- Theorising Islamic Feminism -- Common Ground, Different Contexts -- 2. Gender Issues and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia -- The Need for New Qur'anic Interpretations -- Muslim Women in the Eyes of the Law: Their Rights in Private Spheres -- Jilbab: Between the Politics of Identity and Body Politics -- Indonesian Islamic Feminisms -- 3. Women Writers in the Indonesian Literary Tradition -- Women Writers and Popular Fictions of the 1970s-1980s -- The Pendulum of the Millennium: Liberation of the Generation 2000 -- 4. Authors, Their Worlds and the Female Traditions -- Titis Basino P.I. -- Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim -- Abidah El Khalieqy -- Helvy Tiana Rosa -- 5. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part I) -- Women and Their Married Lives in the Works of Titis Basino P.I. -- Spiritual Love -- Marriage: Perfect Sexual and Souls Union -- Polygamy and Infidelity -- Gender Hierarchy in the Narratives of Ratna Indraswati Ibrahim -- Valuing the Price of Woman: Female Subjectivity, Identity and the Body -- Delimitation and Definition of Female Identity -- The In-between-ness -- 6. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part II) -- Abidah El Khalieqy and Her Feminist Project -- Muslim Women and Their Rights -- Education Rights -- Reproduction Rights -- Gender-Based Violence: Domestic Violence -- Geni Jora and the Global Woman -- Education and Travel -- Helvy Tiana Rosa and Her War Stories -- Armed Conflicts, State Violence and Women -- Exile versus Home -- War in the Global World -- Various Women, Various Lives, Various Identities -- Readership and Reader's Responses -- Responses to Individual Writers -- Conclusion.
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Contemporary Issues of Women and Islam in Muslim Societies; 2. Gender Issues and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia; 3. Women Writers in the Indonesian Literary Tradition; 4. Authors, Their Worlds and the Female Traditions; 5. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part I); 6. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part II); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
Religious groups: social and cultural aspects
Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment
Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009