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Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia: Women's Rights Movements, Religious Resurgence and Local Traditions (Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World): 12
Author(s): Susanne Schroeter
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 31 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 346 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004221867
- ISBN-13: 9789004221864
Book Description
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 Philippines). The authors trace the impact of national development programmes, modernization, globalization, and political conflicts on the local and national gender regimes in the twentieth 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 van Doorn-Harder, Farish A. Noor, Siti Musdah Mulia, Amporn Marddent, Maila Stivens, Alexander Horstmann, Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Monika Arnez, Susanne Schröter, Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Vivienne S.M. Angeles and Birte Brecht-Drouart.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This rich text is a welcome addition to the scant literature on women in Southeast Asia. […] Highly recommended.’
A. B. McCloud, CHOICE 51.5 (January 2014).
doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.51-2959
DOI: 10.1355/sj29-2o
A. B. McCloud, CHOICE 51.5 (January 2014).
doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.51-2959
“The main strength of the book lies in the examination of gender discourses in countries and organizations that have been under-researched. […] … an important contribution to gender studies and Islam.”
Norshahril Saat in
DOI: 10.1355/sj29-2o
About the Author
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).
