Alimatul Qibtiyah

"Feminist Identity and Conceptualisation of Gender Issues by Muslim Gender Studies Elites"

Supervisor: Julia Howell: Co-supervisor: Mary Hawkins 

Biography

Alimatul Qibtiyah obtained her first Master’s degree in Social Psychology from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and completed her second Master’s degree in 2005 in Women's Studies from the University of Northern Iowa, USA (Fulbright Scholarship). She has attended various national and international seminars and courses on women's issues including: Spirited Voices from the Muslim World (University of Sydney); Yale-Indonesia Forum (Dipenegoro University); Internship Program at McGill University (CIDA Scholarship); Annual Women's Studies Conference (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Oxford Muntada seminar(sponsored by British Council at Oxford University in United Kingdom); and the Australia Indonesia Muslim Leader Exchange program nominated and sponsored by The AII in Melbourne and Canberra. Before commencing her PhD, Alim had been working as a lecturer at the Islamic State University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta since 1997.

Research Interests

Muslim Gender Studies, Islamic Indonesian Feminists, Sexuality in Islam, Media and Gender, and Women’s Movements in Indonesia. 

Selected Publications

Books

2010 Gender dalam Islam, Pimpinan Pusat ‘Aisyiyah Majelis Tabligh.

2006 Paradigma Pendidikan Sekualitas Perspektif Islam: Teori dan Praktek, Yogyakarta: Kalam Semesta.

2003 Islam and Gender’s Problems in Indonesia, Yogyakarta: Pustaka Raja.

Book Chapters

2008 ‘Islamic Feminism and Global feminism’ in Moch. Nur Ichwan and Noorhaidi Hasan (eds) Indonesian Islam in a Changing political landscape, CISFORM, 2008.

2003 ‘The Intervention of Angel to Sexual Relationship between Wife and Husband: An Analysis on Hadith Regarding Sexuality’ in Hamim Ilyas, dkk(ed) Women’s Oppression: a Discourse on Misogynic Hadiths, Yogyakarta: Ford Foundation and Center for Women’s Studies, 217-238.

Journal Articles

2010 ‘Self-Identified Feminist among Gender Activists and Scholars at Indonesian Universities’, ASEAS- Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (opens in a new window) 3(2), 151-174.

2009 ‘Indonesian Muslim Women and the Gender Equality Movementchapter’ JIIs-Journal of Indonesian Islam (opens in a new window)- LSAS-PPs IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, 3(1).

2003’ Psychological Aspects on Abortion in Musawa’  Journal on Gender and Islam V. 2 No.2 September 2003.

Contact Details

Email: 17157155@student.uws.edu.au 


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