| Description |
1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Power, hegemony, and agency : the ambiguity of women's political subjectivity in Aceh -- ch. 2. Women's political agency in a region of armed conflict -- ch. 3. Gender and the problem of power in history and historiography -- ch. 4. The poetics of space and representation : women in traditional manuscript literature -- ch. 5. Women in oral traditions and indigenous belief systems : an Acehnese tale: a story about Pak Pande who is so obnoxiously silly he drives his wife out of her wits -- ch. 6. The sacred and the political : piety and militancy in Aceh -- ch. 7. The unhappy marriage of Islam, nation and state -- ch. 8. NGOs, human rights regimes, and violence that cannot be inventoried. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islam and politics -- Indonesia -- Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.
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Women -- Indonesia -- Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.
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Women in Islam -- Indonesia -- Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
9781136859991 (electronic book) |
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1136859993 (electronic book) |
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9781315029078 (electronic book) |
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1315029073 (electronic book) |
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0700715134 |
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9780700715138 |
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