Negotiating Polygamy: Women's Stories in Titis Basino's Works

Abstract

The various strands of contemporary feminism call for more nuanced readines of the political, ideological construction of women's roles within which feminisi theorv. Practice and reading are situated. Muslim women are undeniably responsive to such calls and suggest various ways of engaging with their own social, cultural and political conditions. Through various discourses of their own they demonstrate their subject position and call for the "woman question" to be centred at the public level