Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
V. 1. Images and realities;
General introduction;

Part 1-Imagining muslim women;
1. Women in muslim history: traditional perspectives and new strategies;
2. The past and present of women in the muslim world;
3. Extract from women in the Middle East and North Africa: the 19th and 20th Centuries;
4. Veiled hald-truth Western Travellers' perceptions of middle Eastern women, an introduction;
5. The representation of muslim women in renaissance England;
6. Orientation from unveiling to hyperveiling;

Part 2-Muslim laws and tradition;
7. Women, Islam and patriarchalism;
8. Women and citizenship in the Qur'an;
9. Feminist theology: the challenges for Muslim women;
10. The muted voices of women interpreters;
11. The cultural anticulation of patriarchy: legal systems, Islam and women;
12. Women, the law, and the family in Tunisia;
13. Law and gender violence in Ottoman and modern Egypt;

Part 3-Law of god and law of state: new policies, old realities;
14. Secularist and Islamist discourses discourses on modernity in Egypt and the evolution of the postcolonial nation-state;
15. Some awkward questions on women and modernity in Turkey;
16. Citizenship and gender in algeria;
17. From gender equality to female subjugation: the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait;
18. The mythology of modernity: women and democracy in Lebanon;
19. A double-edges sword: challenging women's oppression within Mulsim society in Northern Nigeria;
20. Restrictions on the rights and freedoms of women;
21. Muslim women and human rights in Saudi Arabia: aspirations of a new gneration;
22. The dischotomy between religions and secular discourse in Islamic societies.
-- v. 2. Social conditions, obstacles and prospects -- v. 3. Womens's movements in Muslim societies.