Formations of public piety : new veiling, the body, and the citizen-subject in contemporary Indonesia

Sonja van Wichelen

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    Abstract

    I would like in this chapter to concentrate on the different ways in which practices of veiling are emerging in the contemporary Indonesian public sphere. As I will illustrate, representations of veiling practices for Indonesian women today constitute numerous elements of religious piety, politics, ideology, fashion, and personal growth, all negotiating identity and belief with existing and evolving paradigms of Islam, Islamism, secularism, capitalism, feminism, and nationalism. Veiling, therefore, cannot be seen as complying with one normative worldview. Instead, as counts for the study of all gendered practices, it is intersected by class, ethnicity, race, language, kinship, family and gender system.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Body in Asia
    EditorsBryan S. Turner, Yangwen Zheng
    Place of PublicationU.S.
    PublisherBerghahn Books
    Pages75-94
    Number of pages20
    ISBN (Print)9781845455507
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

    Keywords

    • Indonesia
    • Muslim women
    • veils
    • women in Islam

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