| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages). |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 3
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ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index. |
| Summary |
The first study to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in the works of contemporary Indonesian Muslim female writers. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Reading Women Reading Writings: Feminist Literary Criticism at Stake -- 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 -- Politics of the Veil -- Legal Reforms -- Educational Reforms -- Theorising Islamic Feminism -- Common Ground, Different Contexts -- 2. Gender Issues and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Women authors, Indonesian.
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Women authors, Indonesian. |
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Indonesian literature -- Muslim authors.
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Indonesian literature. |
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Muslim authors. |
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Muslim women in literature.
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Muslim women in literature. |
| Indexed Term |
Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment |
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Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric |
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Vrouwenstudies |
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Literatuur en rhetorica |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| In: |
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN |
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTOR |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Arimbi, Diah Ariani. Reading contemporary Indonesian Muslim women writers. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009 9789089640895 (OCoLC)445321995 |
| ISBN |
9789048508167 (electronic book) |
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9048508169 (electronic book) |
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9789089640895 |
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9089640894 |
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9781282401846 (online) |
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128240184X |
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