Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia

Women's Rights Movements, Religious Resurgence and Local Traditions
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22186-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 609 g

Reihe: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World

The volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia, which besides the Islamic core countries of Malaysia and Indonesia also comprises southern Thailand and Mindanao. The authors trace the impact of national development programmes, modernization, globalization, and political conflicts on the local and national gender regimes in the 20th century, and elaborate on the consequences of the revitalization of a conservative type of Islam. The book, thus, elucidates the boundary lines of cultural and political processes of negotiation related to state, society, and community. It employs a broad analytical framework, offers rich empirical data and gives new insights into current debates on gender and Islam.

Contributors include Nelly Doorn-Harder, Farash A. Noor, Siti Musdah Mulia, Amporn Marddent, Maila Stivens, Alexander Horstmann, Amina Rasul, Monika Arnez, Susanne Schröter, Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Vivienne Angeles and Birte Brecht.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of various disciplines (social sciences, politics, anthropology, religious studies, gender studies), political activists, members of NGOs, national and international organizations, politicians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schroeter, Susanne

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication
Acknowledgements

Susanne Schröter: Introduction
Susanne Schröter: Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. An Overview.

Indonesia
Nelly van Doorn-Harder: Polygamy and Harmonious Families: Indonesian Debates on Gender and Marriage
Monika Arnez: A Dialogue with God? Islam and Lesbian Relationships in Two Post-Suharto Narratives
Nurul Ilmi Idrus: Islam, Marriage and Gender Relations in Bugis Lontara’:

A Critical Analysis of the Lontara Daramatasia
Siti Musdah Mulia: Towards Justice in Marital Law: Empowering Indonesian Women

Malaysia
Maila Stivens: ‘Family Values’ and Islamic Revival: Gender, Rights and State Moral Projects in Malaysia

Philippines
Amina Rasul-Bernardo: The Role of Muslim Women in Democracy, Development, and Peace: The Philippine Case
Vivienne S. M. Angeles: From Catholic to Muslim: Changing Perceptions of Gender Roles in a Balik-Islam Movement in the Philippines
Birte Brecht-Drouart: Muslim Women Leaders in the Philippines

Thailand
Alexander Horstmann: Female Missionaries and Women’s Participation
in Southern Thailand’s Chapter of the Tablighi Jama’at
Amporn Marddent: Religious Piety and Muslim Women in Thailand

Transnational
Farish A. Noor: Woman as the Constitutive Other? The Place and Meaning of ‘Woman’ in the Worldviewof the Tablighi Jama’at

Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schroeter, Susanne
Susanne Schröter, PhD (1994) in Anthropology, is Professor of Anthropology of Colonial and Postcolonial Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published on religion, gender and culture including the edited volume Christianity in Indonesia (Berlin 2010) and the co-edited volume (together with Arndt Graf and Edwin Wieringa) Aceh. History, politics, and culture (Singapore 2010).