Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Reading Women Reading Writings: Feminist Literary Criticism at Stake -- The Politics of Literature -- Between Facts and Fiction: The Problematic Images of Women in Fiction -- Constructing/Reconstructing Women: Women Reading/Writing Women -- Identity Politics -- A Gaze of Her Own: Authority and Subject Position(s) -- From Private to Public -- 1 Contemporary Issues of Women and Islam in Muslim Societies -- Reinterpretation of the Qur'an -- Social Reforms -- The Politics of the Veil -- Legal Reforms -- Educational Reforms -- Theorising Islamic Feminism -- Common Ground, Different Contexts -- 2 Gender Issues and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia -- The Need for New Qur'anic Interpretations -- Muslim Women in the Eyes of the Law: Their Rights in Private Spheres -- Jilbab: Between the Politics of Identity and Body Politics -- Indonesian Islamic Feminisms -- 3 Women Writers in the Indonesian Literary Tradition -- Women Writers and Popular Fictions of the 1970s-1980s -- The Pendulum of the Millennium: Liberation of the Generation 2000 -- 4 Authors, Their Worlds and the Female Traditions -- Titis Basino P.I. -- Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim -- Abidah El Khalieqy -- Helvy Tiana Rosa -- 5 Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part I) -- Women and Their Married Lives in the Works of Titis Basino P.I. -- Spiritual Love -- Marriage: Perfect Sexual and Souls Union -- Polygamy and Infidelity -- Gender Hierarchy in the Narratives of Ratna Indraswati Ibrahim -- Valuing the Price of Woman: Female Subjectivity, Identity and the Body -- Delimitation and Definition of Female Identity -- The In-between-ness -- 6 Representation, Identity and Religion: Images of Muslim Women, Their Lives and Struggles in Fiction (Part II).

Abidah El Khalieqy and Her Feminist Project -- Muslim Women and Their Rights -- Education Rights -- Reproduction Rights -- Gender-Based Violence: Domestic Violence -- Geni Jora and the Global Woman -- Education and Travel -- Helvy Tiana Rosa and Her War Stories -- Armed Conflicts, State Violence and Women -- Exile versus Home -- War in the Global World -- Various Women, Various Lives, Various Identities -- Readership and Reader's Responses -- Responses to Individual Writers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.