Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh

Provides a historical, ethnographic, literary, and politico- economic analysis of gendered struggles for power, Islamic identity, nationalism, militancy, activism, and piety in Aceh.

Jacqueline Aquino Siapno was born and raised in Pangasinan, Philippines. She completed her B.A. degree at Wellesley College and her Ph.D degree at the University of California-Berkeley. She is currently Lecturer in Political Science and the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne

1. Power, Hegemony, and Agency: The Ambiguity of Women's Political Subjectivity in Aceh 2. Women's Political Agency in a Region of Armed Conflict 3. Gender and the Problem of Power in History and Historiography 4.The Poetics of Space and Representation: Women in Traditional Manuscript Literature 5. Women in Oral Traditions and Indigenous Belief Systems 6. The Sacred and the Political: Piety and Militancy in Aceh 7. The Unhappy Marriage of Islam, Nation and State