![]() ![]() The papers major thrust is to reconceptualise the notion of power anchored in the ideological framework of its polysemous nature. Hence, the paper capitalizes the necessity to examine the complexities of masculine sexualisation, as fortified by Western modernity, which is a process of recognizing the feminine presence that inevitably generate erotic desire to sexual fantasy that ultimately constructs the woman. The woman, however, with all the intellectual and material elevation intervenes with (masculine) sexualisation. Manifested in cultural materialism as both are seriously equated to power. Further, the paper underscores the fictive, yet real advances of the Malay woman in terms of critical consciousness and beauty ![]() The paper wants to dissect the plurality of contemporary Malay society by focusing on the construction of woman sexuality as charged with an amalgam of Islam Parochialism that is seen as a restrictive sociopolitical mechanism and (de)concentrated modernization that decentres religious functions in contemporary Malay society and uses instead a rather filtered Islam as colour for the contours of life.
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