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Diah Arimbi introduces a woman novelist and poet from Indonesia, Abidah El KhalIeqy, who was the first to speak out in her writing about abuses of women: child marriage, marital rape, domestic violence, in ways that challenged orthodox interpretations as they existed in her country. She addressed women’s lack of awareness of their rights, be they to education, or of a reproductive nature, or sexual. Her writings caught women’s attention and gave them confidence to address these issues publicly, thus addressing the discrimination and injustices that had thus far escaped serious opposition.
This is a shorter version of a book subchapter that discusses the works of Abidah El Khalieqy. For a more complete version, see Diah Ariani Arimbi, Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers: Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction, ICAS Publications Series (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009).
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Arimbi, D.A. (2017). Abidah El Khalieqy’s Struggles of Islamic Feminism Through Literary Writings. In: Joy, M. (eds) Women, Religion, and the Gift. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43189-5_2
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