TY  - JOUR
ID  - digilib20927
UR  - https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/20927/
A1  - Qibtiyah, Alimatul
Y1  - 2016/07/18/
N2  - Being a selhdentified feminist activist in Southeast Asia (and
indeed most of the world) is to invite controversies related to various
understandings of the term 'feminist' that carry positive or negative
social connotations. This is increasingly salient in the Muslim world
where conceptions of feminist identity, gender issues and activism
are set against different textual interpretations of Islam. For
example, there are controversial differences between literal Islam and liberal Islam. Therefore this chapter examines the
contestations surrounding feminist identity and the
conceptualization of gender issues by Muslim intellectual elites in
Indonesia. This provides a conceptual framework for an empirical
investigation of feminist identities among Muslim academics, which
includes lecturers and researchers in the Center for Women's
Studies (Pusat Studi Wanita, hereafter PSW) and the Center for
Gender Studies (Pusat Studi Gender, hereafter PSG). Both PSW and
PSG are university centers of learning, and this study focuses on six
such centers in Y ogyakarta. 2
The lively debate between Muslim intellectual elites and
activists in Indonesia concerning feminist identities and gender
issues are grounded in four key factors. First, from a broad historical
perspective, the social structure in traditional Indonesian society
provided women the opportunity to achieve high status and
relatively elevated positions (Goody 1976; Atkinson and Errington
1990). The second (related) factor is a long history of feminist
awareness in Indonesia, even if feminism as a modem discipline and
movement originated from Western scholarship and literature, and
has only recently been embraced by Indonesian academic
departments and institutes. Third, no matter what continent or
country one visits, self-identified feminists and gender activists are a
source of controversy. Finally, Indonesian intellectuals are
embroiled in a dynamic debate about the prospects for a legitimate
form of 'Islamic feminism' to take hold in centers of higher learning.
In other words, the search for compatibility between religious
PB  - Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Diponegoro University and Yale Indonesia Forum International Conferent:e Book Series
JF  - Conceptualizing Feminist Identity and Gender Issues among Muslim Intellectual Elites in Indonesia
VL  - 3
KW  - Conceptualizing Feminist Identity and Gender Issues among Muslim Intellectual Elites in Indonesia
TI  - Conceptualizing Feminist Identity and Gender
Issues among Muslim Intellectual Elites in
Indonesia
AV  - public
ER  -