Women in Muslim societies : diversity within unity / edited by Herbert L. Bodman, Nayereh Tohidi.

Introduction / Herbert L. Bodman -- Gender and religion in Hausaland: variations in Islamic practice in Niger and Nigeria / Barbara M. Cooper -- When modernity confronts traditional practices: female genital cutting in Northeast Africa / Noor J. Kassamali -- Cultural diversity within Islam: veils and laws in Tunisia / M.M. Charrad -- Power, ideology, and women's consciousness in postrevolutionary Iran / Hisae Nakanishi -- Persisting contradictions: Muslim women in Syria / Bouthaina Shaaban -- From two states to one: women's lives in the transformation of Yemen / Linda Boxberger --"Guardians of the nation": women, Islam, and the Soviet legacy of modernization in Azerbaijan / Nayereh Tohidi -- Between Lenin and Allah: women and ideology in Tajikistan / Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh -- Kazak women: living the heritage of a unique past / Paula A. Michaels -- Taslima Nasreen and others: the contest over gender in Bangladesh / Dina M. Siddiqi -- Urban Minangkabau Muslim women: modern choices, traditional concerns in Indonesia / Lucy A. Whalley -- Muslim women in India: a minority within a minority / Shahida Lateef -- The issues at hand / Nayereh Tohidi.