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Sommario
Introduction: Narratives of Muslim Womanhood and Women’s Agency 1. Performing Muslim Womanhood: Muslim Business Women Moderating Islamic Practices in Contemporary Indonesia 2. Pakistan, Muslim Womanhood and Social Jihad: Narratives of Umm Abd Muneeb 3. The Malaysian Islamization Phenomenon: The Underlying Dynamics and Their Impact on Muslim Women 4. Negotiating Modernity: Women Workers, Islam and Urban Trajectory in Indonesia 5. Traditional, Islamic and National Law in the Experience of Indonesian Muslim Women 6. Between Texts and Contexts: Contemporary Muslim Gender Roles
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Minako Sakai teaches at Southeast Asian Social Inquiry and Indonesian Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has published widely on Islamic businesses, microfinance and women, development policies and identity politics in Indonesia. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at CAP, the Australian National University.
Samina Yasmeen is Director of the Centre for Muslim States and Societies and teaches Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia. She has conducted extensive research on Islamisation, jihadism and women in Pakistan, as well as Muslim citizenship in Western liberal societies.
Riassunto
This book provides an analysis of Muslim women’s own narratives of socially and culturally appropriate womanhood in contemporary society. The personal narratives counterbalance the stereotypes of submissive Muslim womanhood often presented in mass media. It was originally published as a special issue of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
