Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Locating Islamic and Non-Islamic Feminisms in Asia -- Part I. Whose Feminism? Muslim Women Redefining "Empowerment" -- Part II. Contesting Feminisms and Muslim Women's Movements in Contested Spaces -- Part III. Transnational Feminisms: Locating Muslim Women at the Crossroads -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Whose Feminism? Muslim Women Redefining "Empowerment" -- 1. Muslim Women's Leadership in Uzbekistan: Religion and Emotion -- Leadership and Emotions -- The State, Islam, and Otinchalar in Uzbekistan -- The Self and Identity -- Bibi Gul' -- In and Out of Otincha -- "I do it" -- Muslim Women's Leadership: Islamic and Islamist Feminists -- The Two Women: The Two Leaders -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Feminization of Islam? Agency and Visibility of Women in Southern Thailand's Branch of the Tablighi Jama'at's Missionary Movement -- Introduction -- The Theoretical Context -- The Tablighi Jama'at -- The Tablighi Jama'at in Southern Thailand -- Everyday Politics in Muslim Communities -- Women as Participants in the Da'wa Movement -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Women's Empowerment in the Xi'an Muslim District -- Introduction -- Comparative Ethnographies of Muslim Women -- Scholarship on Hui Women -- Structure -- Agency -- Collective Sentiment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The Influence of the National Question on Gender Issues in the Muslim Areas of the Southern Philippines: Maranao Muslim Women between Retraditionalization and Islamic Resurgence -- Introduction -- Retraditionalization -- Women in the Sultanate System -- Islam and the Sultanate System -- Islamic Feminism -- Islamic Parties and the Return of the Traditional Political Elites -- Gender Blind Reward System -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Part II: Feminisms and Muslim Women's Movements in Contested Spaces -- 5. The Headscarf Ban and Muslim Women's Rights Discourse in Turkey -- Introduction -- Personal Elaborations on the Women's Rights Discourse -- Emergence of Women's Rights Language -- A Campaign During Elections -- Two Women's Rights Associations -- The Capital City Women's Platform -- The Women's Rights Association Against Discrimination (AKDER) -- Criticisms of the Employment of Women's Rights Discourses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Intersecting Dynamics: Representational Activism and New Mobilities among "Muslim Women" in India -- Introduction -- Problematizing an Essentialized Category-the "Muslim Woman" -- The Politics of Representation of "Mobility" and "Immobility" -- A Watershed Moment for the Muslim Women's Movement in Postcolonial India: The Shah Bano Case and Its Aftermath -- Slow But Steady: A Diversification of Media Representations -- Discourse and Praxis: Islamic Feminism and Muslim Women's Activism in India -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Cited Websites -- 7. Islamic Feminism between Interpretive Freedom and Legal Codification: The Case of Sisters in Islam in Malaysia -- Introduction -- The Right to Reason -- Contesting Patriarchy: Sisters in Islam -- Legal Rationalities, Activist Potentialities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8. Faith-based Challenges to the Women's Movement in Pakistan -- Enlightened Moderation -- Democratic Opportunity for Islamists, Women, and Islamist Women -- Faith-Based Feminisms -- Contesting for Primacy in the Private Realm -- Cultural Authenticity -- Some Proposals of Reconciliation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Periodicals and Newspapers -- Reports and Unpublished Papers -- Part III: Transnational Feminisms: Locating Muslim Women at the Crossroads.

9. From Dhaka to Cincinnati: Charting Transnational Narratives of Trauma, Victimization, and Survival -- Introduction -- Bina's Story -- The Faces of Hope Story -- Naripokkho's Story -- Bibliography -- 10. Governance Feminism's Imperial Misadventure: Progress, International Law, and the Security of Afghan Women -- Abstract -- Liberalism's Daughter: Governance Feminism and the Narrative of Progress -- Alternatives Visions of Flourishing: Islam and Women's Lives -- The Costs of Representing Muslim Women as Victims: Fractured Alliances, Imperiled Lives, and the Weak "Rights" -- Fractured Alliances -- Imperiled Lives: The Use of International Law and Force -- Conclusion: Weak Rights/Weak States and the Limits of the Law -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11. Islam, Feminism, and Agency in Germany Today -- Theorizing Agency -- Immigrants, Feminism, and Agency -- Secular and Religious Feminisms -- Feminist Activist Agents, European Space -- Not Religious and of Muslim Heritage -- Muslim and Feminist -- Islamic Feminist -- Implications for Democratic Subjectivities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.