Productive and pious young Muslim women are key actors who have transformed many intimate elements of everyday life and exemplify the contemporary formation of young feminine citizenship. Based on the book Pious Girls: Young Muslim Women in Indonesia (Routledge, 2024), mainly its Introduction and Chapter 3, this discussion focuses on how influential young Muslim women’s groups and figures invite their followers to understand what it takes to be the ideal feminine pious subject. It is interested on how the neologism ‘Muslimwoman’ coined by miriam cooke (2007) and Saba Mahmood’s argument on the importance of embodied practices for the formation of the pious self (2012) may explain the formation of a feminine pious self among young women in Indonesia.
Annisa R. Beta is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow (2023-2025) and a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Pious Girls (Routledge, 2024) and a co-founder of Anotasi and Jaringan Etnografi Terbuka.
