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The short films of Mien Ly and an articulation of feminist queer theory
1. As the enactment of resistance, provocative portrayals of sexuality and female desire have become signature themes of women filmmakers in postcolonial 'Third World' nations like Malaysia.[1]…
Dakwah at the Cinema: Identifying the Generic Parameters of Islamic Films
To fulfil Islamic cinema’s function as a medium for dakwah, films may begin with excerpts from sacred texts, a sermon, or a statement to suggest that a lesson may be learnt from watching the film.…
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Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema
My PhD thesis draws from feminist and post-structuralist approaches to examine the construction of gender and Islam in Indonesian Islamic cinema between 1977 to 2011. This thesis asks: how, when, and…
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“Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self
  • A. Izharuddin
  • Sociology
    Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
  • 13 August 2018
Voluntary unveiling by Muslim women has largely been overlooked within the context of Islamization. In Muslim-majority societies where the hijab is not legally imposed on women, Muslim women who do…
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Same-sex intimacies in Syariffudin's Mairil and the queering of authenticity
ABSTRACT The rise in LGBT-themed novels in Indonesia over the last decade demonstrates the sea-change in social attitudes and the public presence of sexual and gender minorities in Indonesia. The…
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“Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives
What accounts for the endurance of forced marriage (kahwin paksa) narratives in Malaysian public culture? How does one explain the ways popular fascination with forced marriage relate to assumptions…
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The New Malay Woman’s jiwa as a Postcolonial Structure of Feeling
ABSTRACT Women from newly liberated postcolonial societies have produced fiction and non-fiction work with a critical view on women’s inferior status and discriminatory cultural practices that…
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THE USE OF ENGLISH IN CONTEMPORARY MALAYSIAN FEMINIST ACTIVISM
Feminism and the women's movement in Malaysia are products of specific historical and political contexts. Following this logic, the language used in feminist activism can also be seen as product of…
Does sociology need decolonizing?
This essay reviews three books that investigate the intellectual significance of decentering Eurocentric models in sociology. Each takes a different approach: Syed Farid Alatas and Vineeta Sinha’s…
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The New Malay Woman: The Rise of the Modern Female Subject and Transnational Encounters in Postcolonial Malay Literature
The new Malay woman in modern Malay literature emerged during a period of unflattering representations of female characters in the Malay literary canon and lowbrow fiction by male writers of the…
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