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Author Arimbi, Diah Ariani.

Title Reading contemporary Indonesian Muslim women writers : representation, identity and religion of Muslim women in Indonesian fiction / Diah Ariani Arimbi.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages).
Series ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 3
ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 3.
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.
Note Print version record.
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.
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.
Language English.
Subject 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. (OCoLC)fst01031019
Women authors, Indonesian. (OCoLC)fst01177286
Indexed Term Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment
Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric
Vrouwenstudies
Literatuur en rhetorica
Other Form: Print version: Arimbi, Diah Ariani. Reading contemporary Indonesian Muslim women writers. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009 9789089640895 (OCoLC)445321995
ISBN 9789048508167 (electronic bk.)
9048508169 (electronic bk.)
9789089640895
9089640894
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