Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Overviews
5. Women’s Activism in the Middle East 23
6. Women and Politics in the Middle East 34
7. Women and Work in the Arab World 41
8. The Politics of Gender and the Conundrums of Citizenship 52
9. II. Country Case Studies, West to East
10. State and Gender in the Maghrib 61
11. Sex, Lies, and Television 72
12. An Interview with Heba Ra¡uf Ezzat 99
13. Women on Women: Television Feminism and Village Lives 103
14. Sudanese Women and the Islamist State 115
15. For the Common Good? 126
16. Women and the Palestinian Movement: No Going Back? 135
17. Searching for Strategies 150
18. Gender and Citizenship 159
19. Women in Saudi Arabia 166
20. Women’s Organizations in Kuwait 176
21. The Dialectics of Fashion 183
22. The Political Economy of Female Employment in Postrevolutionary Iran 191
23. Notes 205
24. Bibliography 219
25. Contributors 231
26. Acknowledgments 235