Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Reading Women Reading Writings: Feminist Literary Criticism at Stake
  • The Politics of Literature
  • Between Facts and Fiction: The Problematic Images of Women in Fiction
  • Constructing/Reconstructing Women: Women Reading/Writing Women
  • Identity Politics
  • A Gaze of Her Own: Authority and Subject Position(s)
  • From Private to Public
  • 1. Contemporary Issues of Women and Islam in Muslim Societies
  • Reinterpretation of the Qur'an
  • Social Reforms
  • The Politics of the Veil
  • Legal Reforms
  • Educational Reforms
  • Theorising Islamic Feminism
  • Common Ground, Different Contexts
  • 2. Gender Issues and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia
  • The Need for New Qur'anic Interpretations
  • Muslim Women in the Eyes of the Law: Their Rights in Private Spheres
  • Jilbab: Between the Politics of Identity and Body Politics
  • Indonesian Islamic Feminisms
  • 3. Women Writers in the Indonesian Literary Tradition
  • Women Writers and Popular Fictions of the 1970s-1980s
  • The Pendulum of the Millennium: Liberation of the Generation 2000
  • 4. Authors, Their Worlds and the Female Traditions
  • Titis Basino P.I.
  • Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim
  • Abidah El Khalieqy
  • Helvy Tiana Rosa
  • 5. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part I)
  • Women and Their Married Lives in the Works of Titis Basino P.I.
  • Spiritual Love
  • Marriage: Perfect Sexual and Souls Union
  • Polygamy and Infidelity
  • Gender Hierarchy in the Narratives of Ratna Indraswati Ibrahim
  • Valuing the Price of Woman: Female Subjectivity, Identity and the Body
  • Delimitation and Definition of Female Identity
  • The In-between-ness
  • 6. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part II)
  • Abidah El Khalieqy and Her Feminist Project
  • Muslim Women and Their Rights
  • Education Rights
  • Reproduction Rights
  • Gender-Based Violence: Domestic Violence
  • Geni Jora and the Global Woman
  • Education and Travel
  • Helvy Tiana Rosa and Her War Stories
  • Armed Conflicts, State Violence and Women
  • Exile versus Home
  • War in the Global World
  • Various Women, Various Lives, Various Identities
  • Readership and Reader's Responses
  • Responses to Individual Writers
  • Conclusion.
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Contemporary Issues of Women and Islam in Muslim Societies; 2. Gender Issues and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia; 3. Women Writers in the Indonesian Literary Tradition; 4. Authors, Their Worlds and the Female Traditions; 5. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part I); 6. Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part II); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.