Gender, state and social power in contemporary Indonesia
Subtitle: divorce and marriage law
By: Kate O'Shaughnessy.
Series: Asian Studies Association of Australia : Women in Asia series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780415476508; 9780203883983
Subjects: Marriage -- Indonesia; Marriage law -- Indonesia; Divorce -- Indonesia; Man-woman relationships -- Indonesia; Women in Islam -- Indonesia
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Historiography: marriage, gender, power, and the state; title: Terms and concepts; title: Sources; title: Court records; title: Other printed sources : newspapers and fiction; title: Oral history; title: Methodology; title: Book structure; title: Legal contexts of divorce; title: Gender and law: shaping female legal subjectivity; title: Historiography and methodology; title: Colonial and post-independence marriage laws; title: The colonial legal system and the civil code (Burgerlijk Wetboek); title: The post-independence legal situation; title: New order marriage laws; title: The ideal marriage: the marriage law (UU1/1974) and implementing regulations (PP9/1975); title: Creating model citizens: civil servants: marriage regulations PP10/1983, PP45/1990; title: Engaging with Muslims: the Religious Jurisprudence Law (uu7/1989) and the compilation of Islamic laws (INPRES 1/1991); title: Post-new order laws and calls for reform: liberation or constraint?; title: Conclusion; title: Divorce, property relations and power; title: Historiography and redefining "property"; title: Critiquing the historiography of property; title: Redefining property; title: Marital property in Adat; title: Marital property in Islam; title: Marital property in colonial and post-colonial state law; title: Code; title: Post-colonial laws; title: Conclusion; title: Discourses of divorce; title: Divorce and shame; title: Sources and methodology; title: Definitions and historiography of shame; title: State regulation of shame; title: Print media representations of shame; title: Uses of shame in court negotiations; title: Pre-marriage law divorce: 1965-73; title: The early impact of the marriage law: 1975-80; title: Divorce during the height of the new order: 1984-99; title: Post-new order: 2000-5; title: Shame in women's oral narratives, 2004-5; title: Conclusion; title: Marital rights and obligations; title: Definitions and historiography of rights and obligations; title: State definitions of marital rights and obligations; title: Public representations of women's social rights and obligations; title: Legal representations of marital rights and obligations; title: Islamic definitions of marital rights and obligations; title: Rights and obligations in religious and state courts; title: Pre-marriage law divorce: 1965-73; title: The early impact of the marriage law: 1975-1980; title: Divorce during the height of the new order: 1984-99; title: Post-new order: 2000-5; title: Rights and obligations in women's oral narratives, 2004-5; title: Conclusion; title: Implications of divorce; title: Women's agency: acquiescence, co-optation and resistance; title: Definitions and historiography; title: Acquiescence: an indicator of female agency or oppression?; title: Women co-opting the state: conformity or subversion?; title: Preparing to engage with the state: legal education and advice; title: Co-opting state legal frameworks: women's strategies in court; title: Women's resistance as a diagnostic of state and social power; title: Conclusion; title: Modernity, religion, and nation: divorce and the production of gendered identities; title: Approaches to analyzing divorce and identity; title: Definitions and historiography; title: Religion; title: Inter-religious marriage; title: Unregistered marriage and divorce; title: Modernity; title: The public representations of modernity; title: Individual negotiations of modernity: court cases and women's oral narratives; title: Conclusion; title: Reinterpreting national and political histories: marriage, gender and state power; title: Alternative historical chronologies: Was 1974 a watershed moment in Indonesia's history?; title: Uncovering gender histories through legal histories: women and social power; title: Appendix I Glossary of foreign terms; title: Appendix II Organisations consulted in Yogyakarta; title: Bibliography.