Gender, state and social power in contemporary Indonesia

divorce and marriage law

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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references.

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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
Series
Asian Studies Association of Australia : Women in Asia series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.8909598/09045
Library of Congress
HQ678 .O73 2008, HN703.5, HQ678 .O73 2009, HQ678.O73 2009, HQ678 .O73 2009eb

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
283

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16974121M
ISBN 13
9780415476508, 9780203883983
LCCN
2008029450
OCLC/WorldCat
319212615, 227922643

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