Gendered Anxieties: Islam, Women's Rights, and Moral Hierarchy in Java1

From: Anthropological Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

This paper examines debates that occur in the course of Muslim women's rights advocacy in Java, Indonesia, to provide critical ethnographic insights into the ways that gender issues and notions of family are implicated in political consciousness about nationhood, religious identit y, boundaries, and governance. Javanese Muslim women's rights activists focus on the historical contextualization of religious doctrine to argue against what they see as misguided interpretations of Islam that threaten to control women. This paper examines these efforts through a close reading of the ...

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