Gender, state and social power in contemporary indonesia: divorce and marriage law/
Kate O' Shaughnessy
- London: Routledge, 2009.
- xv, 283 p
Legal contexts of divorce Gender and law : shaping female legal subjectivity. Historiography and methodology ; Colonial and post-independence marriage laws ; New Order marriage laws ; Post-New Order laws and calls for reform : liberation of constraint? ; Conclusion Divorce, property relations and power. Historiography and redefining 'property' Marital property in adat Marital property in Islam ; Marital property in colonial and post-colonial state law Conclusion Discourses of divorce Divorce and shame. Sources and methodology ; Definitions and historiography of shame ; State regulation of shame ; Print media representations of shame ; Uses of shame in court negotiations ; Shame in women's oral narratives, 2004-5 Conclusion Marital rights and obligations. Definitions and historiography of rights and obligations ; State definitions of marital rights and obligations ; Islamic definitions of marital rights and obligations ; Rights and obligations in religious and state courts