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This Open Access volume explores the local-global interactions
between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with
the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh
look at the tensions between the local and the global through a
wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including
fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on
YouTube. The book is grouped around three core
themes: halal lifestyle, desire and shame, and sexuality,
violence and cultural taboos. In the first, the authors bring new
insights into how local expressions of Islam, gender and sexuality
are negotiated in an increasingly globalised world. They explore
forms of a halal lifestyle that include fashion, cosmetics, and an
Islamic dating app. The contributions on the second theme, which
deal with popular literature, illuminate the realm of emotional
worlds, torn between desire and shame. It reveals how different
discourses about gender roles and mobility in culturally diverse
regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the US, and Indonesia
reinforce protagonists` exclusion and precariousness. The third
section unpacks how cultural taboos, such as speaking openly about
rape, abuse and torture, are handled in Indonesia, speaking to the
Indonesian version of the #MeToo movement. This volume is a
useful resource for postgraduate students, lecturers and
researchers with an interest in gender studies, cultural studies,
and literary studies, particularly in Asian and Islamic country
contexts. “This book will be of great value to scholars and
observers of Indonesia's changing social landscape. The chapters
provide insight both into causes of changes within the
socio-political sphere -- such as new laws criminalising forms of
sexuality -- and into understanding the impact such conservative
changes have on a range of people. The volume is a must-read for
anyone wanting to get up to speed on changes in Indonesia’s
gender, sexuality and Islamic landscape.” -
Professor Sharyn Graham Davies, Director of the Herb
Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre, Monash University,
Australia “A showcase of excellent research, this book is of
appeal to Indonesian studies scholars, and to readers in the field
of Asian cultural studies. It is also of relevance to the field of
Asian gender and sexuality studies, and to scholars in Islamic
studies.” – Professor Pamela Nilan, University of Newcastle,
Australia "The articles in this anthology discuss and analyse a
wide range of gender and sexuality issues in an Indonesia that
lives with the "regulatory zeal" of conservative Islamists.
Significantly, however, various agencies are also considered, as
well as the creative resistance of regulated people and
communities. This book should definitely be on the reading list for
the study of Indonesian gender and sexuality." – Dr
Dede Oetomo, Founder and Trustee of GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation
This Open Access volume explores the local-global interactions
between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with
the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh
look at the tensions between the local and the global through a
wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including
fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on
YouTube. The book is grouped around three core
themes: halal lifestyle, desire and shame, and sexuality,
violence and cultural taboos. In the first, the authors bring new
insights into how local expressions of Islam, gender and sexuality
are negotiated in an increasingly globalised world. They explore
forms of a halal lifestyle that include fashion, cosmetics, and an
Islamic dating app. The contributions on the second theme, which
deal with popular literature, illuminate the realm of emotional
worlds, torn between desire and shame. It reveals how different
discourses about gender roles and mobility in culturally diverse
regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the US, and Indonesia
reinforce protagonists` exclusion and precariousness. The third
section unpacks how cultural taboos, such as speaking openly about
rape, abuse and torture, are handled in Indonesia, speaking to the
Indonesian version of the #MeToo movement. This volume is a
useful resource for postgraduate students, lecturers and
researchers with an interest in gender studies, cultural studies,
and literary studies, particularly in Asian and Islamic country
contexts. “This book will be of great value to scholars and
observers of Indonesia's changing social landscape. The chapters
provide insight both into causes of changes within the
socio-political sphere -- such as new laws criminalising forms of
sexuality -- and into understanding the impact such conservative
changes have on a range of people. The volume is a must-read for
anyone wanting to get up to speed on changes in Indonesia’s
gender, sexuality and Islamic landscape.” -
Professor Sharyn Graham Davies, Director of the Herb
Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre, Monash University,
Australia “A showcase of excellent research, this book is of
appeal to Indonesian studies scholars, and to readers in the field
of Asian cultural studies. It is also of relevance to the field of
Asian gender and sexuality studies, and to scholars in Islamic
studies.” – Professor Pamela Nilan, University of Newcastle,
Australia "The articles in this anthology discuss and analyse a
wide range of gender and sexuality issues in an Indonesia that
lives with the "regulatory zeal" of conservative Islamists.
Significantly, however, various agencies are also considered, as
well as the creative resistance of regulated people and
communities. This book should definitely be on the reading list for
the study of Indonesian gender and sexuality." – Dr
Dede Oetomo, Founder and Trustee of GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation
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