A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism: Pattern and Change in Indonesia by Etin Anwar

Author:Etin Anwar [Anwar, Etin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Middle Eastern, Social Science, Political Science, World, Islamic Studies, Islam, Regional Studies, General, Gender Studies
ISBN: 9781351757041
Google: tHlTDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 39739566
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Localizing the global: transitions to secular feminism and its critique of Islam

The term “feminism” is not new to the history of Indonesian women’s movements. While it dates back to women’s movements in the early twentieth century, its treatment as a subject matter increasingly evolved in the 1980s. Even so, there has been a profound ambivalence toward the term “feminism.” Women’s activists avoid the term “feminist” as a label, but share the feminist aspiration for gender equality. Suryakusuma locates the site in which feminism appears to be contradictory. She notes that

there is a fundamental contradiction between feminism as an international movement and government-defined “women and development” activities that serve so-called “national interest.” The adoption of a critical feminist perspective is therefore in direct opposition to the dominant values supposedly embodied in Pancasila, the state ideology.106

This ambivalent attitude shapes the way women debate and discuss feminism, as well as the way they relate to Islam as follows.

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