ISBN:
9089640894
,
9048508169
,
9789089640895
,
9789048508167
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
ICAS publications series. Monographs 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Arimbi, Diah Ariani Reading contemporary Indonesian Muslim women writers
Keywords:
Indonesian literature Muslim authors
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Muslim women in literature
;
Women authors, Indonesian
;
Women authors, Indonesian
;
Indonesian literature Muslim authors
;
Muslim women in literature
;
LITERARY CRITICISM ; Australian & Oceanian
;
Society and social sciences
;
Society and culture: general
;
Social issues and processes
;
Feminism and feminist theory
;
Social groups
;
Religious groups: social and cultural aspects
;
Literature and literary studies
;
Literature: history and criticism
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Muslim women in literature
;
Women authors, Indonesian
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The first study to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in the works of contemporary Indonesian Muslim female writers
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index
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English
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