Gender And Power In Indonesian Islam

Author : Bianca J. Smith,Mark Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136024405

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Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam by Bianca J. Smith,Mark Woodward Pdf

The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored. This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. By considering these distinct but related Muslim gender cultures in Java, Lombok and Aceh, the book examines the broader function of pesantren as a force for both redefining existing modes of Muslim subjectivity and cultivating new ones. It demonstrates how, as Muslim women rise to positions of power and authority in this patriarchal domain, they challenge and negotiate "normative" Muslim patriarchy while establishing their own Muslim "authenticity." The book goes on to question the comparison of Indonesian Islam with the Arab Middle East, challenging the adoption of expatriate and diasporic Middle Eastern Muslim feminist discourses and secular western feminist analyses in Indonesian contexts. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores configurations of female leadership, power, feminisms and sexuality to reveal multiple Muslim selves in pesantren and Sufi orders, not only as centres of learning, but also as social spaces in which the interplay of gender, politics, status, power and piety shape the course of life.

Author : Kathryn Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134118823

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Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia by Kathryn Robinson Pdf

This book explores the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, examining the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history, and demonstrating the different forms of social power this has afforded to women. It sets out the part played by women in the nationalist movement, and the role of the women’s movement in the structuring of the independent Indonesian state, the politics of the immediate post-independence period and the transition to the authoritarian New Order. It analyses in detail the gender relations of the New Order regime, focused around the unitary family form supposed by the family system expounded in the New Order ideology and the contradictory implications of the opening up of the economy to foreign capital and ideas, for gender relations. It examines the forms of political activism that were possible for the women’s movement under the New Order, and the role it played in the fall of Suharto and the transition to democracy. The relationship between Islam and women in Indonesia is also addressed, with particular focus on the way in which Islam became a critical focus for political dissent in the late New Order period. Overall, this book provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between gender, religion and democracy in Indonesia, and is a vital resource for students of gender studies and Indonesian affairs.

Author : Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971698423

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Indonesian Women and Local Politics by Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi Pdf

In an important social change, female Muslim political leaders in Java have enjoyed considerable success in direct local elections following the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Indonesian Women and Local Politics shows that Islam, gender, and social networks have been decisive in their political victories. Islamic ideas concerning female leadership provide a strong religious foundation for their political campaigns. However, their approach to women's issues shows that female leaders do not necessarily adopt a woman's perspectives when formulating policies. This new trend of Muslim women in politics will continue to shape the growth and direction of democratization in local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia and will color future discourse on gender, politics, and Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134118830

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Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alicia Izharuddin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811021732

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Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema by Alicia Izharuddin Pdf

This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian film industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of Islamic popular culture. It considers scholarship on gender in Indonesian cinema through the lens of power relations. With key themes such as nationalism, women's rights, polygamy, and terrorism which have preoccupied local filmmakers for decades, Indonesia cinema resonates with the socio-political changes and upheavals in Indonesia’s modern history and projects images of the nation through the debates on gender and Islam. The text also sheds light on broader debates and questions about contemporary Islam and gender construction in contemporary Indonesia. Offering cutting edge accounts of the production of Islamic cinema, this new book considers gendered dimensions of Islamic media creation which further enrich the representations of the 'religious' and the 'Islamic' in the everyday lives of Muslims in South East Asia.

Author : Kate O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134023561

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Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia by Kate O'Shaughnessy Pdf

This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women. Indonesia experienced high divorce rates in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by a remarkable decline. Already falling divorce rates were reinforced by the 1974 Marriage Law, which for the first time regulated marriage for both Muslim and non-Muslim Indonesians and restricted access to divorce. This law defined the roles of men and women in Indonesian society, vesting household leadership with husbands and the management of the household with wives. Drawing on a wide selection of primary sources, including court records, legal codes, newspaper reports, fiction, interviews and case studies, this book provides a detailed historical account of this period of important social change, exploring fully the impact and operation of state regulation of divorce, including the New Order government’s aims in enacting this legal framework, its effects in practice and how it was utilised by citizens (both men and women) to advance their own agendas. It argues that the Marriage Law was a tool of social control enacted by the New Order government in response to the social upheaval and protests experienced in the mid 1970s. However, it also shows that state power was not hegemonic: it was both contested and co-opted by citizens, with men and women enjoying different degrees of autonomy from the state. This book explores all of these issues, providing important insights on the nature of the New Order regime, social power and gender relations, both during the years of its rule and since its collapse.

Author : Kathryn May Robinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : UOM:39015079153394

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Gender, Islam, and Democracy in Indonesia by Kathryn May Robinson Pdf

Exploring the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, this book examines the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history.

Author : Sonja van Wichelen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136963872

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Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia by Sonja van Wichelen Pdf

The political downfall of the Suharto administration in 1998 marked the end of the "New Order" in Indonesia, a period characterized by 32 years of authoritarian rule. It opened the way for democracy, but also for the proliferation of political Islam, which the New Order had discouraged or banned. Many of the issues raised by Muslim groups concerned matters pertaining to gender and the body. They triggered heated debates about women’s rights, female political participation, sexuality, pornography, veiling, and polygamy. The author argues that public debates on Islam and Gender in contemporary Indonesia only partially concern religion, and more often refer to shifting moral conceptions of the masculine and feminine body in its intersection with new class dynamics, national identity, and global consumerism. By approaching the contentious debates from a cultural sociological perspective, the book links the theoretical domains of body politics, the mediated public sphere, and citizenship. Placing the issue of gender and Islam in the context of Indonesia, the biggest Muslim-majority country in the world, this book is an important contribution to the existing literature on the topic. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and gender studies.

Author : Jaqueline Aquino Siapno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136860065

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Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh by Jaqueline Aquino Siapno Pdf

This book sets out to open up the space for interpretation of history and politics in Aceh which is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. It lays out a groundwork for analysing how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous matrifocality, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence. Analysts of the current conflict in Aceh have tended to focus on present events. Siapno provides a historical analysis of power, co-optation, and resistance in Aceh and links it to broader comparative studies of gender, Islam, and the state in Muslim communities throughout the world.

Author : Kathryn Robinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : 0415590205

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Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia by Kathryn Robinson Pdf

Exploring the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, this book examines the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history.

Author : Bianca J. Smith,Mark Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136024320

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Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam by Bianca J. Smith,Mark Woodward Pdf

The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored. This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. By considering these distinct but related Muslim gender cultures in Java, Lombok and Aceh, the book examines the broader function of pesantren as a force for both redefining existing modes of Muslim subjectivity and cultivating new ones. It demonstrates how, as Muslim women rise to positions of power and authority in this patriarchal domain, they challenge and negotiate "normative" Muslim patriarchy while establishing their own Muslim "authenticity." The book goes on to question the comparison of Indonesian Islam with the Arab Middle East, challenging the adoption of expatriate and diasporic Middle Eastern Muslim feminist discourses and secular western feminist analyses in Indonesian contexts. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores configurations of female leadership, power, feminisms and sexuality to reveal multiple Muslim selves in pesantren and Sufi orders, not only as centres of learning, but also as social spaces in which the interplay of gender, politics, status, power and piety shape the course of life.

Author : Irma Riyani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000221817

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Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia by Irma Riyani Pdf

This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationships, the book also investigates how Islam influences discourses of sexuality in Indonesia, and in particular how Islamic teachings affect Muslim married women’s perceptions and behaviour in their sexual relationships with their husbands. Based on extensive original research, the book reveals that Muslim women perceive marriage as a social, cultural, and religious obligation that they need to fulfil; that they realise that finding an ideal marriage partner is complicated, with some having the opportunity for a long courtship and others barely knowing their partner prior to marriage; and that there is a strong tendency, with some exceptions, for women to consider a sexual relationship in marriage as their duty and their husband’s right. Religious and cultural discourses justify and support this view and consider refusal a sin (dosa) or taboo (pamali). Both discourses emphasise obedience towards husbands in marriage.

Author : Noorhaidi Hasan,Fritz Schulze
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Civil rights (Islamic law)
ISBN : 3447105127

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Indonesian and German Views on the Islamic Legal Discourse on Gender and Civil Rights by Noorhaidi Hasan,Fritz Schulze Pdf

Indonesian and German Views on the Islamic Legal Discourse on Gender and Civil Rights addresses current issues and discourses on gender equality and civil rights in Indonesia and Germany. Contributions to this volume delve into the legal status of Muslim women by reference to the rights to freedom from discrimination and of Muslim minority groups facing the issue of criminalization of apostasy. Despite its focus on issues related to Indonesia and Indonesian Islam, this volume also covers parallel developments and discourses in and on other countries and societies such as Iranian, Lebanese, Malaysian and German. Employing manifold perspectives and approaches, including theology, social sciences, discourse studies, and science of law, it sets out to contribute to our understanding of Islamic gender discourse and relevant legal issues among Muslims across the world. The authors include leading scholars of Germany and Indonesia, reporting researches on different but interrelated topics. Contributors are Irene Schneider, Fritz Schulze, Imen Gallala-Arndt, Friederike Wapler, Claudia Derichs, Gunnar Duttge, Noorhaidi Hasan, Hamim Ilyas, Syafiq Hasyim, Saifuddin, Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin, Muhrisun Afandi.

Author : Syafiq Hasyim
Publisher : Equinox Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789793780191

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Understanding Women in Islam by Syafiq Hasyim Pdf

Understanding Women in Islam: An Indonesian Perspective critically explores gender-biased discourse within Islamic jurisprudence. It also elucidates matters seldom discussed in the Qu'ran and proposes a way out from the current methodological deadlock regarding women's position in Islam. SYAFIQ HASYIM is an analyst for issues on women in Islam, political Islam and Islamic radicalism, and currently Deputy Director of ICIP (International Centre for Islam and Pluralism) in Jakarta.

Author : E. Kristi Poerwandari
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8973006339

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Indonesian Women in a Changing Society by E. Kristi Poerwandari Pdf