tailieunhanh - .Women, Islam and ModernityIn popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal

.Women, Islam and Modernity 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 such simplified views 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. It discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality, and examines how other factors besides Islam simultaneously influence the ways in which young women approach courtship, sexuality and reproductive. | Single women sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia Linda Rae Bennett Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details Women Islam and Modernity 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 such simplified views 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. It discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality and examines how other factors besides Islam simultaneously influence the ways in which young women approach courtship sexuality and reproductive health in an era of dynamic social change. It demonstrates that Islam is neither alone in trying to control female sexuality nor entirely successful in doing so. Linda Rae Bennett is a medical anthropologist and currently a VicHealth Public Health Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society of La Trobe University. Her key research interests are reproductive sexual health and human rights among youth and different Muslim populations in Australia and Southeast Asia. Asian Studies Association of Australia Women in Asia series Edited by Louise Edwards Australian National University Editorial Board Susan Blackburn Monash University John Butcher Griffith University Vera Mackie Curtin University Anne McLaren Melbourne University Mina Roces University of New South Wales Andrea Whittaker Melbourne University Mukkuvar Women Gender hegemony and capitalist transformation in a South Indian fishing community Kalpana Ram 1991 A World of Difference Islam and gender hierarchy in Turkey Julie Marcus 1992 Purity and Communal Boundaries Women and social change in a Bangladeshi village Santi .