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Trust in Polarised Plural Societies : = Intersections Across the Ideological Divides of Women's Groups in Malaysia.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Trust in Polarised Plural Societies :/
Reminder of title:	Intersections Across the Ideological Divides of Women's Groups in Malaysia.
Author:	Saleem, Saleena Begum.
Description:	1 online resource (265 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06A.
Subject:	Feminism. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798381021240

Trust in Polarised Plural Societies : = Intersections Across the Ideological Divides of Women's Groups in Malaysia.
Saleem, Saleena Begum.

Trust in Polarised Plural Societies :Intersections Across the Ideological Divides of Women's Groups in Malaysia. - 1 online resource (265 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

From Europe to North America to Asia, social groups align with political parties along polarising stances to battle over a range of hot-button culture war issues related to gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, national identity, and religion in the political sphere. Differences are typically about moral authority, beliefs and values that perceived by both sides of a cultural divide to be irreconcilable and rooted in non-intersecting spheres of the sacred and the secular. Such divides erode social trust. This thesis contributes insights to a neglected research area on the question of trust building between women's groups as means to mitigate polarisation. Specifically, the thesis examines trust and Malay women's groups of differing ideological orientations (secular multiracial feminism, Islamic feminism, Islamic revivalism) in Malaysia. One contributing factor to polarisation in Malaysia is the emotive trope of a secular-versusreligious clash over issues involving Islamic law, women, and gender, which is reinforced through ethnic politics, civil society activism, and media frames. Malay women's groups have in the recent past adopted oppositional stances that contributed to polarising public contention. The thesis interrogates the prospects for different Malay women's groups to build trust and form cross cutting feminist solidarity despite their ideological differences and history of being on oppositional sides.A decolonial feminist standpoint epistemological and methodological research approach is developed from feminist standpoint and decolonial theories to critically study the perspectives of Malay women from Helwa ABIM, Wanita IKRAM, SIS, and ARROW, KRYSS Network, Dear Her and Malaysian Youth for Education Reform. The research uses in-depth qualitative interviews with nineteen Malay women. The research finds that tensions over religious authority are barriers to building trust between the women's groups. However, the research also finds evidence of inter-group engagements and recent instances of social learning between Malay women. Contrary to expectations, several younger women from the Islamic revivalist groups saw no contradiction in identifying as "Muslims" and "feminists", sharing remarkably similar perspectives with the younger women from secular groups. Some of the women from Islamic revivalist groups adopt similar stances with secular and Islamic feminists on controversial issues like teenage pregnancies, sex education and contraception, and early marriage. It is argued that the women's personal experiences in dealing with diversity and navigating complex situations during their advocacy work entails making pragmatic choices rationalised in religious terms, which makes them reflective and more willing to set aside prejudiced beliefs about other women's groups. The women also share remarkably similar experiences of resistance to sexist oppression, labelling, and polarised politics. It is argued that relations of trust between the women that are built upon these shared experiences can function as a necessary precursor to cooperation and compromise in other areas that are more complicated.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381021240Subjects--Topical Terms:

558369
Feminism.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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