Contents
1. Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Islam / Therese Saliba
2. Islamic Feminism and its Discontents: Towards a Resolution of the Debate / Valentine M. Moghadam
3. The Politics of Feminism in Islam / Anouar Majid
4. The Power Paradox in Muslim Women’s Majales: North-West Pakistani Mourning Rituals as Sites of Contestation over Religious Politics, Ethnicity, and Gender / Mary Elaine Hegland
5. Icons and Militants: Mothering in the Danger Zone / Julie Peteet
6. Elusive Bodies: The Politics of Aesthetics among Yemeni Elite Women / Gabriele von Bruck
7. Contesting the Illicit: Gender and the Politics of Fatwas in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin
8. Women in the Era of Modernity and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Taslima Nasrin of Bangladesh / S. M. Shamsul Alam
9. Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab Feminism in a Transnational World / Amal Amireh
10. Muslim Women: Negotiations in the Third Space / Shahnaz Khan
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