Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Muslim Women in Asia?6 -- Brief History of Islam in Asia -- The Book -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Local Muslim Woman and Public Space -- Part II. Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State -- Part III. Women's Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Muslim Woman and Public Space -- 1. "Just 6P on a T-shirt, or 12P on a pair of jeans": Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight for a Livable Wage -- Introduction -- From Import Substitution to Export-Led Growth and the Rise of a Female Labor Force -- The Failed Promise and Emergent Worker Consciousness -- Ongoing Contestation and Worker Demands -- Policies as Usual: The BGMEA Resists Worker Demands -- Widespread Protest, Government Backlash, and the Struggle Goes Global -- Improved Working Conditions- The Key to Bangladesh's Competitive Edge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Dilemmas of Women's Movements in Turkey: Labor, Charity, and Neoliberal Patriarchy -- Introduction -- Traversing Varied Spaces: A Brief Note on Research -- Neoliberal Reform: Labor, Gender Inequality, and New Forms of Poverty -- Kemalist/Secularist Women: Modernization, Westernization, and the Ongoing Micropolitics of Attire and Representation -- Conservative/Islamist/Pious Women: Micropolitics of Charity and Piety -- Beyond Secular/Pious Dichotomy: Seeing Similarities and Embracing the Challenges Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empowerment and Anxieties about "Returning" among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka -- Pollution and Purity of Displacement -- Humanitarian Work and Gender -- Class-Specific Identity Performances -- Reproductive Health -- Women as Border-Crossers.

Ambivalent on "Imminent Peace" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Women in Post-Conflict Swat, Pakistan -- Historical Context -- Notes on Agency, Resistance, and Survival -- Resisting the Taliban -- Supporting the Taliban -- Working for Peace -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State -- 5. Maintenance for Divorced Muslim Women after the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986: A View from the Lower Courts -- Introduction -- The Impact of the MWA: Contrasting Views -- Womens' Low Rate of Resort to the Courts -- Limited Knowledge of the MWA within the Legal Profession -- Maintenance Cases Under S125 in the Additional Family Court of Hyderabad -- The MWA in the Mahila Court of Hyderabad -- Judgments Against a Divorcée's Relatives -- Judgments Against a State Waqf Board -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Laws Cited -- Cases Cited -- 6. Gender, Sharia, and the Politics of Punishment: A Contemporary Malaysian Case1 -- Islamization and Modernity in Malaysia -- The Trials of Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno -- Caning and Modernity -- Screening Kartika -- The Gendered Politics of Punishment: Representation, Embodiment, and Effectivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. At the Forefront of a Post-Patriarchal Islamic Education: Female Teachers in Indonesia -- Reform of Islamic Thinking and Higher Education -- Centers for Women Studies -- Pesantren -- Female Students, Teachers, and Researchers- Increasing Numbers and Authority -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8. Education, Gender, and Islam in China: The Place of Religious Education in Challenging and Sustaining "Undisputed Traditions" among Chinese Muslim Women -- Religious Education -- Right to Religious Education -- Women's Rights to Religious Education.

Women's Mosques-"Educate Women, Educate Society" (Female Ahong) -- Islam and Diversification of Female Education -- The Case of Xinjiang -- Complementary Sites of Patriarchy, State, and Islam -- qiayi) gender -- Impact of Tensions between State and Islamic Institutions Concerning Female Education -- Force of Tradition: Keeping Girls "Safe" and "Pure" -- Female Education as Contestation over Belonging -- Socialization and Female Education -- From Geopolitics to Gender Politics -- State Policies and Local Educational Reforms -- Contexts and Uses of Education -- Education at the Intersection of Religion, Culture, and Identity Formation -- Dongxiang Muslim Women: Educating the Force of Habit -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part III: Women's Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam -- 9. Cosmetics, Fashion, and Moral Panics: The Politics and Ethics of Beauty in a Girls' Dormitory in Kabul -- Room 42 -- Moral Panic -- The Cosmetic Cover of a Multilayered Occupation -- "Taliban Girls" and "Modern Girls" -- Bodies as Sites of Oppositional Practices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10. Negotiating Polygamy: Islam, Gender, and Feminism in Indonesia -- The Pro-Polygamy Campaign -- Debating Polygamy -- Distinguishing Justification from Promotion -- Secular Quietism -- Feminist Opposition -- Islamist Women -- Reconfiguring Masculinity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11. South Asian Muslim American Girls: Resistance and Compliance in Public and Private Spaces -- Paradigms for South Asian Muslim Girl Identity: Situational Bricolage or Binary Opposition -- Home and Family -- Primary and Secondary Islamic Education in America -- Islamic Schools -- The College Experience for South Asian American Muslim Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.