Islamizing Intimacies

Islamizing Intimacies
Title Islamizing Intimacies PDF eBook
Author Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 265
Release 2019-03-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0824878116

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One of the great transformations presently sweeping the Muslim world involves not just political and economic change but the reshaping of young Muslims’ styles of romance, courtship, and marriage. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner takes up the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250 interviews over a fifteen-year period, her vivid, well-crafted ethnography is full of insights into the real-life struggles of young Muslims and framed by a deep understanding of Indonesia’s wider debates on gender and youth culture. The changes among Muslim youth reflect an ongoing if at times unsteady attempt to balance varied ideals, ethical concerns, and aspirations. On the one hand, growing numbers of young people show a deep and pervasive desire for a more active role in their Islamic faith. On the other, even as they seek a more self-conscious and scripture-based profession of faith, many educated youth aspire to personal relationships similar to those seen among youth elsewhere—a greater measure of informality, openness, and intimacy than was typical for their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. Young women in particular seek freedom for self-expression, employment, and social fulfillment outside of the home. Smith-Hefner pays particular attention to their shifting roles and perspectives because it is young women who have been most dramatically affected by the upheavals transforming this Muslim-majority country. Although deeply personal, the changing aspirations of young Muslims have immense implications for social and public life throughout Indonesia. The fruit of a longitudinal study begun shortly after the fall of the authoritarian New Order government and the return to democracy in 1998–1999, the book reflects Smith-Hefner’s nearly forty years of anthropological engagement with the island of Java and her continuing exploration into what it means to be both “modern” and Muslim. The culture of the new Muslim youth, the author shows, through all its nuances and variations, reflects the inexorable abandonment of traditions and practices deemed incompatible with authentic Islam and an ongoing and profound Islamization of intimacies.

Women, Islam and Modernity

Women, Islam and Modernity
Title Women, Islam and Modernity PDF eBook
Author Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher Routledge
Pages 165
Release 2005-03-31
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 1134331568

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This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.

Gender Diversity in Indonesia

Gender Diversity in Indonesia
Title Gender Diversity in Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Sharyn Graham Davies
Publisher Routledge
Pages 276
Release 2010-02-25
Genre History
ISBN 1135169845

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Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores dominant theories of gender and sexuality in relation to gender diversity in Indonesia. It discusses in particular intersexed groups, such as 'calalai', 'calabai' and 'bissu'.

Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia

Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia
Title Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Irma Riyani
Publisher Routledge
Pages 240
Release 2020-11-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000221814

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This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationships, the book also investigates how Islam influences discourses of sexuality in Indonesia, and in particular how Islamic teachings affect Muslim married women’s perceptions and behaviour in their sexual relationships with their husbands. Based on extensive original research, the book reveals that Muslim women perceive marriage as a social, cultural, and religious obligation that they need to fulfil; that they realise that finding an ideal marriage partner is complicated, with some having the opportunity for a long courtship and others barely knowing their partner prior to marriage; and that there is a strong tendency, with some exceptions, for women to consider a sexual relationship in marriage as their duty and their husband’s right. Religious and cultural discourses justify and support this view and consider refusal a sin (dosa) or taboo (pamali). Both discourses emphasise obedience towards husbands in marriage.

Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia

Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia
Title Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher Routledge
Pages 371
Release 2014-12-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317910966

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Winner of the 2015 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited Volume Sex, sexuality and sexual relationships are hotly debated in Indonesia, triggering complex and often passionate responses. This innovative volume explores these issues in a variety of ways. It highlights historical and newer forms of sexual diversity, as well as the social responses they provoke. It critiques differing representations of sexuality, pointing to the multiplicity of discourses within which sexuality and ‘the sexual’ are understood in modern-day Indonesia. Placing sexuality centre-stage and locating it within the specific historical context of the Reformasi era, this landmark volume explores understandings and practices across a wide variety of sites, focusing in on a diverse group of Indonesian actors, and the contested meanings that sexuality carries. Beginning with a substantive introduction and concluding with a scholarly reflection on key issues, the volume is framed around the four themes of sexual politics, health, diversity and representations. It seeks both to present new empirical findings as well as to add to existing theoretical analysis. This work fills an important gap in our understanding of the evolution and contemporary dynamics of Indonesian sexualities. It will be of interest to scholars and academics from disciplines including gender and sexuality studies, global health, sexual and reproductive health, anthropology, sociology and Asian studies.

Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia

Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
Title Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Monika Arnez
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 227
Release
Genre
ISBN 9819956595

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Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia

Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia
Title Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Sonja van Wichelen
Publisher Routledge
Pages 181
Release 2010-06-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1136963871

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The political downfall of the Suharto administration in 1998 marked the end of the "New Order" in Indonesia, a period characterized by 32 years of authoritarian rule. It opened the way for democracy, but also for the proliferation of political Islam, which the New Order had discouraged or banned. Many of the issues raised by Muslim groups concerned matters pertaining to gender and the body. They triggered heated debates about women’s rights, female political participation, sexuality, pornography, veiling, and polygamy. The author argues that public debates on Islam and Gender in contemporary Indonesia only partially concern religion, and more often refer to shifting moral conceptions of the masculine and feminine body in its intersection with new class dynamics, national identity, and global consumerism. By approaching the contentious debates from a cultural sociological perspective, the book links the theoretical domains of body politics, the mediated public sphere, and citizenship. Placing the issue of gender and Islam in the context of Indonesia, the biggest Muslim-majority country in the world, this book is an important contribution to the existing literature on the topic. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and gender studies.