Negotiating Women's Veiling : Politics & Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia

• Yazar: Dewi Candraningrum (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine 2013
• Konular: Women; politics; Civil Society; gender; sexuality; rights; freedoms; democracy; Indonesia
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed. Achievement and role of jilbab after the authoritarian regime of Soeharto in 1998 is hardly known. The author examines women perception but also t...