Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia

by Nancy J Smith-Hefner and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

One of the great transformations presently sweeping the Muslim world involves not just political and economic change but the reshaping of young Muslims' styles of romance, courtship, and marriage. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner takes up the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250 interviews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824884256
• ISBN13: 9780824884253
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"