Table of Contents

Part One: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives 1. Introduction: Women and Identity Politics in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective 2. The Creation of the World We Know: The World Economy and the Re-creation of Gendered Identities 3. The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity 4. Gender as an Ethno-Marker: Rape, War, and Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia 5. Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Woman Question in Iran Part Two: Country Case Studies 6. Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria 7. Gender, Religious Identity, and Political Mobilization in Sudan 8. Feminism and Muslim Fundamentalism: The Tunisian and Algerian Cases 9. he Social Representation of Women in Algeria's Islamist Movement 10. Gender Activism: Feminists and Islamists in Egypt 11. Identity Politics and Women: "Fundamentalism" and Women in Pakistan 12. Moving Away from a Secular Vision? Women, Nation, and the Cultural Construction of Hindu India 13. Identity Politics and the Contemporary Indian Feminist Movement 14. Women and Fundamentalism: The Case of Turkey 15. Halakha, Zionism, and Gender: The Case of Gush Emunim 16. The Role, Place, and Power of Middle-Class Women in the Islamic Republic 17. Paradoxical Politics: Gender Politics Among Newly Orthodox Jewish Women in the United States 18. Women of the New Right in the United States: Family, Feminism, and Politics Part Three: Dilemmas and Strategies 19. The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws 20. Identity Politics and Women's Ethnicity 21. International Standards of Equality and Religious Freedom: Implications for the Status of Women