This book, based on extensive original research, examines young Muslim women’s groups in Indonesia to show how a new type of young Muslim woman is emerging: pious and loyal to traditional Muslim ideas, whilst at the same time entrepreneurial, comfortable with the world of neoliberal capitalism, living modern, middle-class urban lives, and, above all, assertive and forward-looking. The book analyzes the different facets of this new approach to Islam, shows how the young Muslim women’s groups influence Indonesian society, politics and the economy overall, and highlights that it is young Muslim women’s ideas about improving themselves that is key in bringing about the new approach.
Contents
List of Figures
Glossary
Transcription Notes
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Young Muslim Women Coming into the Light
Chapter 1 Reconfiguring the Ideal Young Muslim Woman
Chapter 2 Gaining Visibility, Occupying Visuality
Chapter 3 The ‘Muslimwoman’ and Self-transformation
Chapter 4 Be Entrepreneurial! The Productive, Pious Feminine Subject in Neoliberal Indonesia
Coda: Being Young Muslim Women in the Midst of Change
Index
Biography
Annisa R. Beta is a lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
