Matriarchy in Motion: Minangkabau Women Negotiating Patriarchy
How do women in the world’s largest matriarchal society sustain everyday power within a highly patriarchal and male-centered national context?
In this live interview, Prof. Mina Elfira (Universitas Indonesia) explores how Minangkabau women in West Sumatra renegotiate matriarchal principles (adat) alongside Islamic and Indonesian laws.
We’ll unpack actual shifts in family property and economy and asking how young women are reclaiming and re-modifying adat to meet contemporary challenges.
Prof. Mina Elfira, S.S., M.A., Ph.D. —
Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia.
Research: gender, Minangkabau, area studies. Selected works:
- Lived Experiences of Minangkabau Mothers and Daughters: Gender Relations, Adat and Family in Padang, West Sumatra (2015) Scholar Press
- The Empress Is Back on the Stage: Woman Leadership in Minangkabau Folklore (2018) International Review of Humanities Studies
- More like living with it than in it: The Modified Functions of Minangkabau Rumah Gadang of West Sumatra, Indonesia (2019). Global Journal Al-Thaqafah 9(1)
- Minangkabau Mothers and Daughters in Contemporary Rantau Society: Regaining power with modified matrilineal principles and patriarchal Rantau norms (2023) Journal fo the Humanities of Indonesia 24(2).
*The interview will be conducted in English via Zoom and will be recorded. When you purchase a ticket, you will receive the link to the recording afterwards and can also conveniently watch it at a later time.
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