Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers
Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction
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Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers looks at the work of four writers—Titis Basino P.I., Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy, and Helvy Tiana Rosa—paying particular attention to questions of how gender is constructed and in turn constructs the identities, roles, and status of Muslim women in Indonesia. In addition, Diah Ariani Arimbi focuses on issues of authenticity, representation, and power in these authors’ works and details how each woman challenged perceptions of Muslim women in Islamic societies.
Acknowledgements
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 Feminism
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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