Women, Islam and modernity : single women, sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia / Linda Rae Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Linda Rae.

Series:

ASAA women in Asia series.

Women in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single women--Indonesia.

Single women.

Single women--Indonesia--Social conditions.

Sexual abstinence--Religious aspects--Islam.

Sexual abstinence.

Indonesia--Social life and customs.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork in Eastern Indonesia, the book explores the complex factors that affect how young Indonesian women form their sexual subjectivities, discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality, and examines how the cultural context, includ

Contents:

Cultural constructions of sexuality and gender

Maiden bodies : inscriptions of femininity and desire

Premarital relationships and contemporary courtship practices

Indigenous sexual scripts and social transition

Women's health and maiden identities

Reproductive rights for single women .

Introduction

Cultural constructions of sexuality and gender

Reproductive rights for single women

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-33155-X

1-134-33156-8

1-280-16522-7

0-203-39138-1

9780203391389

OCLC:

61363557