Linda Rae Bennett

Women, Islam and Modernity

Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia

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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 this simplified view 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, discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality, and examines how the cultural context, including other factors besides Islam, simultaneously in… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-134-33155-0
EAN: 9781134331550
Produktnummer: 24432701
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'099 KB
Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 3 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

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.