This Open Access volume explores the local-global interactions between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local and the global through a wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on YouTube. The book is grouped around three core themes: halal lifestyle, desire and shame, and sexuality, violence and cultural taboos. In the first, the authors bring new insights into how local expressions of Islam, gender and sexuality are negotiated in an increasingly globalised world. They explore forms of a halal lifestyle that include fashion, cosmetics, and an Islamic dating app. The contributions on the second theme, which deal with popular literature, illuminate the realm of emotional worlds, torn between desire and shame. It reveals how different discourses about gender roles and mobility in culturally diverse regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the US, and Indonesia reinforce protagonists` exclusion and precariousness. The third section unpacks how cultural taboos, such as speaking openly about rape, abuse and torture, are handled in Indonesia, speaking to the Indonesian version of the #MeToo movement. This volume is a useful resource for postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers with an interest in gender studies, cultural studies, and literary studies, particularly in Asian and Islamic country contexts. weiterlesen