Islam, gender, & social change / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, and John L. Esposito.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.

Women in Islam and Muslim societies / John L. Esposito -- Islam and gender: dilemmas in the changing Arab world / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Gender issues and contemporary Quran interpretation / Barbara Stowasser -- Islam, social change, and the reality of Arab women's lives / Nadia Hijab -- Feminism in an Islamic republic: "Years of hardship, years of growth" / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Secularist and Islamist discourses on modernity in Egypt and the evolution of the postcolonial nation-state / Mervat Hatem -- Women and the state in Jordan: inclusion or exclusion? / Laurie A. Brand -- Slow yet steady path to women's empowerment in Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss -- Changing gender relations and the development process in Oman / Carol J. Riphenburg -- Women and religion in Bahrain: an emerging identity / May Seikaly -- Gender, Islam, and the state: Kuwaiti women in struggle, pre-invasion to postliberation / Margot Badran -- Philippine Muslim women: tradition and change / Vivienne SM. Angeles.