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Introduction: young Muslim women coming into the light -- Reconfiguring the ideal young Muslim woman -- Gaining visibility, occupying visuality -- The 'Muslimwoman' and self-transformation -- Be entrepreneurial! The productive pious feminine subject in neoliberal Indonesia -- Coda: being young Muslim women in the midst of change.

Abstract
In this article, I draw on critical investigations of gendered, racialised and sexualised discourses on Islam and Muslim minorities in Western Europe to explore two recent instances of Muslim female intellectuals and artists responding to what has been dubbed "the Muslim question". I shall show that Muslim women's counter-voices are multilayered, conveyed through various means, and context-dependent, as well as dependent on intersectional marginalised positionalities. My goal is to theoretically rethink the feminist methodology of 'talking back' on the basis of the complex ways in which Muslim women establish modes of critique.

Most literary analysis of the canon of Indonesian literature overlooks its religious aspect. This book is the first to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa. The narratives of the four writers are rich sources for revealing the construction of Indonesian Muslim women's identities. Within their feminist reading the writers understand that gender roles are negotiable rather than inherent. In representing women in a variety of discourses they draw multi-faceted women struggling against repression and domination, and resisting their status as powerless.

Most literary analysis of the canon of Indonesian literature overlooks its religious aspect. This book is the first to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa. The narratives of the four writers are rich sources for revealing the construction of Indonesian Muslim women's identities. Within their feminist reading the writers understand that gender roles are negotiable rather than inherent. In representing women in a variety of discourses they draw multi-faceted women struggling against repression and domination, and resisting their status as powerless. - Dit is het eerste boek waarin de verhouding tussen geslacht en islamitische identiteit in de Indonesische literatuur wordt onderzocht. Diah Ariani Arimbi doet dit aan de hand van vier schrijfsters: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy en Helvy Tiana Rosa. Het verhaal van deze vier vrouwen onthult de ware identiteit van Indonesische moslima's. Vanuit hun feministisch standpunt laten deze schrijfsters zien dat verhoudingen tussen man en vrouw niet statisch zijn, maar veranderlijk en onderhandelbaar. Arimbi schetst een innemend beeld van deze veelzijdige vrouwen en hun strijd tegen onderdrukking en discriminatie. Zij blijken allesbehalve weerloze zielen te zijn.

This study examines two American online organizations established as networks of support for Muslim women artists: Muslim Women in the Arts (mwia) and the International Muslimah Artists' Network (iman). While the broader context is to explore the intersections of three important identity markers, namely, gender (woman), occupation (artist) and religion (Muslim) often overlooked in identity theory (Peek 2005), the more specific aim is to probe the effects of these digital culturescapes on Muslim women's artistic agency and success. The data collected from interviews with member artists confirm the necessity of such organizations, offer suggestions on how they could be improved and outline the difficulties they face due to their largely volunteer and online nature.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Muslim Women in Asia?6 -- Brief History of Islam in Asia -- The Book -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Local Muslim Woman and Public Space -- Part II. Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State -- Part III. Women's Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Muslim Woman and Public Space -- 1. "Just 6P on a T-shirt, or 12P on a pair of jeans": Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight for a Livable Wage -- Introduction -- From Import Substitution to Export-Led Growth and the Rise of a Female Labor Force -- The Failed Promise and Emergent Worker Consciousness -- Ongoing Contestation and Worker Demands -- Policies as Usual: The BGMEA Resists Worker Demands -- Widespread Protest, Government Backlash, and the Struggle Goes Global -- Improved Working Conditions- The Key to Bangladesh's Competitive Edge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Dilemmas of Women's Movements in Turkey: Labor, Charity, and Neoliberal Patriarchy -- Introduction -- Traversing Varied Spaces: A Brief Note on Research -- Neoliberal Reform: Labor, Gender Inequality, and New Forms of Poverty -- Kemalist/Secularist Women: Modernization, Westernization, and the Ongoing Micropolitics of Attire and Representation -- Conservative/Islamist/Pious Women: Micropolitics of Charity and Piety -- Beyond Secular/Pious Dichotomy: Seeing Similarities and Embracing the Challenges Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empowerment and Anxieties about "Returning" among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka -- Pollution and Purity of Displacement -- Humanitarian Work and Gender -- Class-Specific Identity Performances -- Reproductive Health -- Women as Border-Crossers.