Gender, governance and Islam / edited by Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali and Kathryn Spellman Poots.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Introduction - Beyond Women, Islam and the State: Situating the Politics of Gender in a New Century -- Protest, Resistance and Shifting Gender Orders in Egypt: Crossing Red Lines? -- 3 Manufacturing Consent in Iran: from Moral Subjects to (Un)Healthy Citizens -- 4 Saudi Women: Between Family, Religion and State -- 5 Against All Odds: the Resilience and Fragility of Women’s Gender Activism in Turkey -- 6 Discrete Moves and Parallel Tracks: Gender Politics in Post-2001 Afghanistan -- 7 Palestine: Gender in an Imagined Fragmented Sovereignty -- 8 Iraq: Gendering Violence, Sectarianism and Authoritarianism -- 9 Defiance not Subservience; New Directions in the Pakistani Women’s Movement -- 10 Muslim Diasporas in Transition: Islam, Gender and New Regimes of Governance -- Epilogue: Locating Gender in Contentious Politics.

Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender. The volume charts the shifts in academic discourse and global development practice that shape our understanding of gender both as an object of policy and as a terrain for activism. Nine individual case studies systematically explore how struggles for political control and legitimacy determine both the ways in which dominant gender orders are safeguarded and the diverse forms of resistance against them.