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By Sonja van Wichelen

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ISBN-13: 9780415497244

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ISBN-13: 9781138843912

The political downfall of the Suharto management in 1998 marked the top of the "New Order" in Indonesia, a interval characterised by means of 32 years of authoritarian rule. It opened the way in which for democracy, but in addition for the proliferation of political Islam, which the hot Order had discouraged or banned. the various matters raised by means of Muslim teams involved issues referring to gender and the physique. They caused heated debates approximately women’s rights, lady political participation, sexuality, pornography, veiling, and polygamy.



The writer argues that public debates on Islam and Gender in modern Indonesia merely in part quandary faith, and extra frequently consult with moving ethical conceptions of the masculine and female physique in its intersection with new category dynamics, nationwide id, and international consumerism. by way of forthcoming the contentious debates from a cultural sociological standpoint, the e-book hyperlinks the theoretical domain names of physique politics, the mediated public sphere, and citizenship. putting the difficulty of gender and Islam within the context of Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority state on this planet, this booklet is a vital contribution to the prevailing literature at the subject. As such, will probably be of serious curiosity to students of anthropology, sociology, and gender studies.

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