This research describes single young women''s sexuality in modern Muslim boarding school called Pesantren from their own perspective. It documents a process of social change in which traditional Islamic prescription on sexuality is being transformed by modern experience of single young women. Data was collected by means of a feminist ethnographic study in which full participation in daily life of single young women in Pesantren. The material collected was analyzed in two principles ways--- narrative and discourse analysisto bring up multi subjectivities and realities on their sexuality. Findings highlighted the dynamics of interactions between dominant Islamic discourse and other discourses on modernity and feminism, which are taking a place both in personal experience and practice. Personal experience and practice is hybrid, fluid, and fragmented as is signified by changes and trends. That illustrates strongly in the way single young women negotiating and resiting religious morality, modernity and feminism to response issue of body, relationship, sexual orientation, fantasy, desire, code dress.

Born and raised in Indonesia, Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah joined the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) as coordinator of the research fellowship program since 2005. She went on to earn an MA in Health and Social Science at Mahidol University in Thailand , for which she researched on the dynamics of sexual health in the pesantren (pondok) in Indonesia.