Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note from the editor: transliteration and key terms xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Central and South Asia
6. Indonesia 1. The Peace Brokers: Women of Aceh and Ambon 23
7. India 2. Nation and Selfhood: Memoirs of Bengali Muslim Women 37
8. Afghanistan 3. From Refugee Camp to Kabul: The Influence of Exile on Afghan Women 52
9. 4. Gendered Aid Interventions and Afghan Women: Images versus Realities 77
10. Chechnya 5. “Black Widows” in the New York Times: Images of Chechen Women Rebels 92
11. Part Two: The Middle East and North Africa
12. Iran 6. The Islamic Republic of Iran and Women’s Images: Masters of Exploitation 109
13. Iraq 7. Widows’ Doomsday: Women and War in the Poetry of Hassan al-Nassar 139
14. 8. Images and Status: Visualizing Iraqi Women 149
15. Lebanon 9. In Search of Identity: Hijab Recollections from West Beirut 165
16. 10. Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution 175
17. Tunisia and Algeria 11. Images of Manipulation: Subversion of Women’s Rights in the Maghreb 198
18. Part Three: Europe and the United States
19. Former Yugoslavia 12. Images of Women in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Neighboring Countries, 1992–1995 213
20. Spain 13. Muslim Women in the Spanish Press: The Persistence of Subaltern Images 227
21. Great Britain 14. The 7/7 London Bombings and British Muslim Women: Media Representations, Mediated Realities 245
22. United States 15. Images of Muslim Women in Post-9/11 America 262
23. Bibliography 275
24. Contributors 295
25. Index 297