@article{ART001864998},
author={Soo-In Lee},
title={The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists},
journal={Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies},
issn={1225-8539},
year={2014},
volume={21},
number={1},
pages={5-43},
doi={10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001}
TY - JOUR
AU - Soo-In Lee
TI - The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists
JO - Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
PY - 2014
VL - 21
IS - 1
PB - Institute of Global Affairs
SP - 5
EP - 43
SN - 1225-8539
AB - Fatayat, women part of Nahdlatul Ulama which is the most popular religious organization in Indonesia, has contributed to the construction of the balanced Islam through the gender equal interpretation of Quran. The practical strategies and characteristics of Fatayat activists are as follows: First, they have the strategy of empowering women by finding out the grounds for gender equality in Quran. Quran provides muslim women with the energy carrying out the activism. Second, they assert the social construction of gender and the equal rights of women in public sphere. But they highlight the innate nature of breast feeding and have modified gender equality strategy. Though the modified equality strategy accepts the prior obligation of mother to that of father as far as child rearing is concerned, it doesn’t mean gender inequality in domestic sphere. Third, while they claim women can be leader in public sphere, they ascribe the leadership characteristics only to personal qualities. Accepting the innate nature of breast feeding and the personal qualities of leadership is related to the strategy that emphasizes the public equality through the division of public and private spheres. To realize the equality in private sphere, they choose a spouse who has gender perspective and make private agreements with their husbands for conjugal equality. The flexibility in Fatayat activities shows the global muslim feminism has been mediated through Indonesian contexts by the organizational characteristics of Fatayat. It seems the characteristics of Fatayat activism reveal Indonesian subjectivity and peculiarity which are deeply rooted in local context by Fatayat, the endogenous mass organization.
KW - Indonesia;Women Activism;Muslim Women;Gender Equality;Public Sphere
DO - 10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
ER -
Soo-In Lee. (2014). The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 21(1), 5-43.
Soo-In Lee. 2014, "The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists", Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol.21, no.1 pp.5-43. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
Soo-In Lee "The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 21.1 pp.5-43 (2014) : 5.
Soo-In Lee. The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists. 2014; 21(1), 5-43. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
Soo-In Lee. "The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 21, no.1 (2014) : 5-43.doi: 10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
Soo-In Lee. The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 21(1), 5-43. doi: 10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
Soo-In Lee. The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. 2014; 21(1) 5-43. doi: 10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
Soo-In Lee. The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists. 2014; 21(1), 5-43. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
Soo-In Lee. "The Practical Strategy and Characteristic of Indonesian Muslim Women Activism: Focusing on Fatayat Activists" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 21, no.1 (2014) : 5-43.doi: 10.18107/japs.2014.21.1.001
