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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Body in Asia |
Editors | Bryan S. Turner, Yangwen Zheng |
Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 75-94 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781845455507 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Indonesia
- Muslim women
- veils
- women in Islam