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Author_Linda Rae Bennett
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gender studies
Gilli Islands
health
IBU
Indonesian cultural norms
Indonesian Women
Love Magic
Maiden Bodies
Male Placenta
Married Women
Muslim women's health
Normative Rights
NTB
Pacaran Modern
Premarital Pregnancy
Premarital Relationships
Premarital Sex
qualitative fieldwork
reproductive
reproductive autonomy
Reproductive Health
Reproductive Morbidity
Sasak
Sex Education
sexual
sexual subjectivity
sexuality
sexuality and reproductive rights Indonesia
single
Single Muslim Women
Single Women
STI Prevention
STI Surveillance
STI Testing
virginity
Waktu Lima
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Young Men
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- ISBN 9780415329293
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork in Eastern Indonesia, the book explores the complex factors that affect how young Indonesian women form their sexual subjectivities, discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality, and examines how the cultural context, including other factors besides Islam, simultaneously influence the ways in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health. It demonstrates that Islam is neither alone in trying to control female sexuality, nor entirely successful in doing so.
Linda Rae Bennett is a medical anthropologist and currently a VicHealth Public Health Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society of La Trobe University. Her key research interests are reproductive/sexual health and human rights, among youth and different Muslim populations in Australia and Southeast Asia.
