Islam Women S Sexuality And Patriarchy In Indonesia

Author : Irma Riyani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Monika Arnez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819956593

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Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia by Monika Arnez Pdf

Author : Bianca J. Smith,Mark Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Anissa Helie,Homa Hoodfar
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780322889

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Sexuality in Muslim Contexts by Anissa Helie,Homa Hoodfar Pdf

This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for being intrinsically restrictive with respect to women's rights and sexuality. The authors show that conservative Muslim discourse does not necessarily match practices of believers or of citizens and that women's empowerment is facilitated where indigenous and culturally appropriate strategies are developed. Using case studies from Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Israel and India, they argue persuasively that Muslim religious traditions do not necessarily lead to conservative agendas but can promote emancipatory standpoints. An intervention to the construction of 'Muslim women' as uniformly subordinate, this collection spearheads an unprecedented wake of organizing around sexualities in Muslim communities.

Author : Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134331550

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Women, Islam and Modernity by Linda Rae Bennett Pdf

In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork in Eastern Indonesia, the book explores the complex factors that affect how young Indonesian women form their sexual subjectivities, discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality, and examines how the cultural context, including other factors besides Islam, simultaneously influence the ways in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health. It demonstrates that Islam is neither alone in trying to control female sexuality, nor entirely successful in doing so.

Author : Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780415329293

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Women, Islam and Modernity by Linda Rae Bennett Pdf

This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.

Author : Monika Arnez,Melani Budianta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9819956587

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Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia by Monika Arnez,Melani Budianta Pdf

This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local and the global through a wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on YouTube. The book is grouped around three core themes: sexuality and violence, halal lifestyle, and shame and self-determination. The first section unpacks how activists and progressive religious scholars have argued for the need for the Sexual Violence Bill and it examines the ambivalence between criminalisation and care towards LGBTQ+ people. In the second, the authors bring new insights into how local expressions of Islam, gender and sexuality are negotiated in an increasingly globalised world. The contributions on the third theme tackle gender roles and mobility in culturally diverse regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the US, and Indonesia. "The volume is a must-read for anyone wanting to get up to speed on changes in Indonesia's gender, sexuality and Islamic landscape." - Professor Sharyn Graham Davies, Director of the Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre, Monash University, Australia "A showcase of excellent research, this book is of appeal to Indonesian studies scholars, and to readers in the field of Asian cultural studies. It is also of relevance to the field of Asian gender and sexuality studies, and to scholars in Islamic studies." - Professor Pamela Nilan, University of Newcastle, Australia

Author : Irma Riyani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000221916

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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 : Sharyn Graham Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135169831

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Gender Diversity in Indonesia by Sharyn Graham Davies Pdf

Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores the nature of gender diversity in Indonesia, and with the world’s largest Muslim population, it examines Islam in this context. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it discusses in particular calalai – female-born individuals who identify as neither woman nor man; calabai – male-born individuals who also identify as neither man nor woman; and bissu – an order of shamans who embody female and male elements. The book examines the lives and roles of these variously gendered subjectivities in everyday life, including in low-status and high-status ritual such as wedding ceremonies, fashion parades, cultural festivals, Islamic recitations and shamanistic rituals. The book analyses the place of such subjectivities in relation to theories of gender, gender diversity and sexuality.

Author : Istiadah
Publisher : Monash Asia Inst
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0732605997

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Muslim Women in Contemporary Indonesia by Istiadah Pdf

Author is a lecturer at the State Institute of Islamic Studies in Malang and this paper was completed as a research project for her Master of Arts at Monash University, 1994.

Author : Pınar İlkkaracan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015051586017

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Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies by Pınar İlkkaracan Pdf

Author : E. Kristi Poerwandari
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8973006339

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

Author : Dewi Candraningrum
Publisher : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782355960109

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Negotiating Women’s Veiling by Dewi Candraningrum Pdf

This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed. Achievement and role of jilbab after the authoritarian regime of Soeharto in 1998 is hardly known. The author examines women perception but also the Sharia Ordinances and the narratives of censorship. Voices of both women and sexual minorities (transgenders, gays, lesbians, bisexuals and queers) finally demonstrate awareness of the politics of representation in contemporary Indonesia, highlighting the links between religion, politics and identity.

Author : Kathryn Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Sonja van Wichelen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.