| 英文摘要 |
This paper focuses on a club named the Obedient Wives Club (OWC), which was established by a group of highly educated Muslim women in Malaysia on 4th June 2011. The OWC elite Muslim women promote Islam as din (way of life), including the practice of polygamous marriage, the wife's submission to husband, etc. However, the existence of Obedient Wives Club has caused a great deal of controversy. The members are regarded as backward and victims of a patriarchal religion by the mainstream society.
This paper employs text analysis methods, and also conducts in-depth interviews with eleven OWC elite Muslim women, aiming to clarify that the emergence of the Obedient Wives Club is inextricably linked with the global wave of Islamic revivalism occurred in the 1970s. Instead of seeing them as an oppressed group, this paper argues that the OWC elite Muslim women, in fact, have embraced their subjectivity in everyday life. Their decision to be“Islamized” creates an “ideal home” that provides inner and outer support for them, enabling them to react to the malaises that occur in modern societies. The OWC elite Muslim women have successfully entered the historical process as responsible subjects, becoming individuals who know, and search for, selfaffirmation. |
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