Gender as a social regime in the Islamic Contex - a case study of theMuhammadiyah

This paper aims to examine gender as a social regime as distinct from a political regime that many feminist scholars focuse on. As a social regime, gender has been secured and ordered in an way that it is being able to direct and to regulate gender relations even in its absent in a state regime. The social agency being observed in this study is Muhamamdiyah, the second largest Islamic organization in Indonesia besides Nahdlatul Ulama. This paper focuse on one part of the larger study covering all aspects of regime, including ideology, organizational structure, official pronounment as well as narrative construction within its regimentation. The paper explores on how gender is constructed and how it is contested in its official pronouncements which reveals the evident that how gender has become the backbone of the ‘swinging pendulum’ of Muhamamdiyah’s reorientation from conservatism to somehow toward moderation