ABSTRACT
This book sets out to open up the space for interpretation of history and politics in Aceh which is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. It lays out a groundwork for analysing how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous matrifocality, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence. Analysts of the current conflict in Aceh have tended to focus on present events. Siapno provides a historical analysis of power, co-optation, and resistance in Aceh and links it to broader comparative studies of gender, Islam, and the state in Muslim communities throughout the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
Power, Hegemony, and Agency
The Ambiguity of Women‧s Political Subjectivity in Aceh
chapter 2|30 pages
Women‧s Political Agency in a Region of Armed Conflict
chapter 3|22 pages
Gender and the Problem of Power in History and Historiography
chapter 4|17 pages
The Poetics of Space and Representation
Women in Traditional Manuscript Literature
chapter 5|28 pages
Women in Oral Traditions and Indigenous Belief Systems
An Acehnese Tale: A story about Pak Pandé who is so obnoxiously silly he drives his wife out of her wits
chapter 7|28 pages
The Unhappy Marriage of Islam, Nation, and State
An Acehnese Tale: A story about Pak Pandé who is so obnoxiously silly he drives his wife out of her wits
chapter 8|17 pages
NGOs, Human Rights Regimes, and Violence that Cannot be Inventoried
An Acehnese Tale: A story about Pak Pandé who is so obnoxiously silly he drives his wife out of her wits
