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Title

Imaging Muslim women in Indonesian Ramadan soap operas / Rachmah Ida.

Author

Ida, Rachmah.

Publication

Bangkok, Thailand : Asian Muslim Action Network ; Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2009.

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Asian Muslim Action Network

Description

xii, 74 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Each year during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Indonesian television stations adopt Muslim themes in virtually all of their programmes, ranging from religious teaching to quiz programs to cooking shows to soap operas. The latter are Muslim-themed serials featuring melodramatic stories about upper- and middle-class women with an emphasis on prayer and devoutness. This study investigates how these serials have contributed to constructing images of contemporary Islamic culture and urban Muslim women in Indonesia. Using textual analysis and audience ethnography, the author shows how women and Islam have been "framed" by the media in transitional Indonesia. Rachmah Ida is a lecturer in communications at Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia

Series Statement

Islam in Southeast Asia : views from within

Uniform Title

Islam in Southeast Asia.

Subject

• Television soap operas > Social aspects > Indonesia
• Television series > Social aspects > Indonesia
• Television > Social aspects > Indonesia
• Women in Islam > Indonesia
• Muslim women > Indonesia
• Téléromans > Aspect social > Indonésie
• Séries télévisées > Aspect social > Indonésie
• Télévision > Aspect social > Indonésie
• Femmes dans l'islam > Indonésie
• Musulmanes > Indonésie
• 05.36 television
• 11.84 Islam: other
• Muslim women
• Television series > Social aspects
• Television soap operas > Social aspects
• Television > Social aspects
• Women in Islam
• Women
• Television series
• Indonesia
• Indonesia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-74).

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• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Indonesian Television and Religiosity -- Indonesian Soap Operas and the Industry -- Islam, Women, and the Media in the Post-Reformasi Era -- The Cultural Production of Muslim Women -- Structure of the Study -- A Review of Women and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia -- The Status of Women in Islam -- Women in Indonesia: Past and Present -- Muslim Women in Contemporary Indonesia -- Representing Indonesian Muslim Women -- Representations of Women in Indonesian Media -- The Narratives -- Tarissa: Negotiating Modernity and Religiosity -- Aisyah: Image of a Pious Woman -- Unchallenged Polarities -- The Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Family -- Family and Women in Indonesia -- Constructing the Subjects: Reading Maha Pengasih -- What Constitutes the Contemporary "Islamic Family"? -- Economic Interests and Family Bonds -- Veiling in Ramadan Soap Operas -- Public Discourses -- Images of Contemporary Veiling
• Note continued: Religious Iconography, Islamic Faith, and Pop Culture -- Audience Reception: Forging Identities -- The Community of Viewers -- Identifying Religiosity in Ramadan Soap Operas -- Reading the Portrayals of Muslim Women -- Views of Muslim Society -- Women and the Jilbab -- Views of Contemporary Islam -- What the Soap Opera Makers Say -- Framing Women and Islam in Transitional Indonesia.

ISBN

• 9789749511077
• 9749511077

LCCN

2009332347

OCLC

• 496161101
• SCSB-12893275

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Harvard Library