1st Edition

Pious Girls Young Muslim Women in Indonesia

By Annisa R. Beta Copyright 2024
128 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.