Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society

Peletz, Michael G.

doi:10.1525/can.1994.9.2.02a00010

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“…Abu-Lughod 1989). Research on masculinities (see, e.g., Janson 2008;Marsden 2007;Peletz 1994;Walle 2004) and sexuality (e.g. ) in Algeria had explored production and reproduction of power, leadership, and domination as articulated through patron/client relations and public performances of masculine values, such as honour, hospitality, and gift-giving, as well as knowledge, piety, and mystical power.…”

Section: Gender Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Islam, Politics, Anthropology

Osella

2010

Islam, Politics, Anthropology

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Islam, Politics, Anthropology

Osella

2010

Islam, Politics, Anthropology

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“…Or as in the case of Latifah, a thirty-eight-year-old unmarried professional woman with a masters degree from a United Stated institution, they may remain single rather than relinquish their own goals for the 5 This theme is discussed by Ong (1987), Peletz (1988Peletz ( , 1995Peletz ( , 1996, Ong and Peletz (1995), Krier (1995) and Nagata (1995). An even further extrapolation of this theme might be the changing nature of 'Malayness' as the family unit changes.…”

Section: Women and Islamic Identitymentioning

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Defining ‘Modern’ Malay womanhood and the coexistent messages of the veil

Mouser

2007

Religion

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The gender constructions and performances of Malay women are often perceived by outside researchers as 'shrouded under a veil' of increasing Islamic conservatism. Urban Malay women, however, argue that women actively engage in the construction and performance of gender identities. Based on research conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during 2001 and 2003, this article argues that women advantageously alter, transform and utilise the constructs placed upon them by Islam, by ethnic identification and by conceptions of 'modernity'. Often one image of 'womanhood' is presented and in public e an image that is socially accepted, honoured and respected e while less publicly alternative forms of 'womanhood' articulate individual goals and aims. Using an agent-oriented perspective, this article further includes an analysis of women's individual renegotiations of larger cultural constructs and the ways in which the tudong, or headscarf, has become a symbol by which individual women express their understanding of social position and personal freedoms in an industrialised Islamic context.

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“…However, this biomedical vocabulary for talking about essentialized gender roles was sutured to critiques of male behaviour with deep histories not only in Jordan, but throughout the Muslim world. As Michael Peletz () has argued in his work on Malaysian Sharia practitioners, Islamic masculinities often portray men as quintessentially rational (as possessors of ‘aql ) in an ‘official’ sense, while simultaneously acknowledging their nearly universal shortcomings in that regard at another, more practical level as rational actors in everyday life. According to Peletz, rationality here is not simply ‘about’ gender.…”

Section: ‘You're All So Educated’: Medicalizing Islamic Ethicsmentioning

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The Chastity Society: disciplining Muslim men

Hughes

2017

Royal Anthropological Inst

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At a time when Western humanitarian rescue discourses seek to save Muslim women from irrational and violent Islamic masculinities, the Jordanian Islamist charity ‘the Chastity Society’ seeks to train young men to restrain their excessive masculine passions to ensure that Muslim women are spared the fate of the benighted and oppressed Western woman. This article traces parallel emphases on gender essentialism, rationality, cultural pathology, and abjection to argue that a shared language of contention unites both Islamists and those who advocate for Western humanitarian interventions. I explore how several kinds of social control are legitimized through these symmetrical polemics about gender, order, and civilization.

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Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society

Cited by 34 publications

References 20 publications

Islam, Politics, Anthropology

Islam, Politics, Anthropology

Defining ‘Modern’ Malay womanhood and the coexistent messages of the veil

The Chastity Society: disciplining Muslim men

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