To Become Indonesian Women, You Have to Wear Jilbab
Normalising the Veil in the Contemporary Indonesian Islam
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_39How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Indonesian Women; Veil; Identity; Normalisation; Islam
- Abstract
The wearing of the veil in the public domain has become a common sight for Indonesian women, especially among young Moslem women. The acceptance of wearing veil in public domain, including social media, has changed the means of the Islamic outfit as an attribute of identity of being an Indonesian woman. This article employs previous studies to examine how veiled women fulfil the definition of normality and beauty that are acceptable to society and at the certain point veil has become attribute for Indonesian women. We explore the practice of veiling in Indonesia across political, social, and cultural transformations of various contexts of space and time, which allows us to identify veil as an attribute of Indonesian women. In the increasingly ‘concervative turn’ of Islam in Indonesia, we argue that wearing veil has to be the new normal for Indonesian women driven by Islamisation and formalisation of the veil. We apply Simone de Beauvoire’s notions of the immanence of women, in showing that in order to become an Indonesian woman, young Moslem women have been experiencing the process of ‘normalising’ the use of veil. We adopt the term of ‘normalising’ developed by Ervin Goffman.
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TY - CONF AU - Nur Aini AU - Mia Siscawati PY - 2023 DA - 2023/05/29 TI - To Become Indonesian Women, You Have to Wear Jilbab BT - Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Stream (AHS-APRISH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 499 EP - 513 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_39 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_39 ID - Aini2023 ER -