On shifting ground [electronic resource] : Muslim women in the global era / edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.

Includes bibliographical references.

The satellite, the prince, and Scheherazade : women as communicators in digital Islam / Fatema Mernissi -- On and off camera in Egyptian soap operas : women, television, and the public sphere / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Singing a new song : bonding and breaking with the past / Sherifa Zuhur -- Wings of freedom : Iranian women, identity, and cyberspace / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone -- The challenge of globalization in Saudi Arabia / Mai Yamani -- Globalizing equality : Muslim women, theology, and feminism / Asma Barlas -- The veil debate--again : a view from America in the early twenty-first century / Leila Ahmed -- Feminist theory, agency, and the liberatory subject / Saba Mahmood -- Between religion and secularism : Islamist women of Hamas / Islah Jad -- The prospects for democracy : women reformists in the Iranian parliament / Elaheh Koolaee -- Standing on shifting ground : women and civil society in Iran / Mehrangiz Kar -- Sisters in Islam and the struggle for women's rights / Zainah Anwar -- Women and the dynamics of transnational networks / Meena Sharify-Funk -- Shirin Ebadi : a perspective on women's rights in the context of human rights / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.

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