"Published in cooperation with the World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University"--Opposite t.p. - Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: 1 Introduction: Women and Identity Politics in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective, Valentine M. Moghadam 2 The Creation of the World We Know: The World- Economy and the Re-creation of Gendered Identities, i. iAlc ivc-v.lt 3 The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity, Hanna Papanek 4 Gender as an Ethno-Marker: Rape, War, and Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia, Silva Meznaric 5 Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Woman Question in Iran, Mohamad Tavakoli- Targhi

Part Two: 6 Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria, Ayesha M. Imam 7 Gender, Religious Identity, and Political Mobilization in Sudan, Sondra Hale 8 Feminism and Muslim Fundamentalism: The Tunisian and Algerian Cases, Alya Baffoun 9 The Social Representation of Women in Algeria's Islamist Movement, Cherifa Bouatta and Doria Cherifati-Merabtine Gender Activism: Feminists and Islamists in Egypt, Margot Badran 11 Identity Politics and Women: "Fundamentalism" and Women in Pakistan, Khawar Mumtaz Moving Away from a Secular Visior.ion? Women, Nation, and the Cultural Construction of Hindu India, Sucheta Mazumdar 13 Identity Politics and the Contemporary Indian Feminist Movement, Radha Kumar 14 Women and Fundamentalism: The Case of Turkey, Binnaz Toprak Halakha, Zionism, and Gender: The Case of Gush Emunim, Madeleine Tress The Role, Place, and Power of Middle-Class Women in the Islamic Republic, Shahin Gerami 17 1 Paradoxical Politics: Gender Politics Among Newly Orthodox Jewish Women in the United States, Debra Renee Kaufman Women of the New Right in the United States: Family, Feminism, and Politics, Rebecca E. Klatch

Part Three: 19 The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws, Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas 20 Identity Politics and Women's Ethnicity, Nira Yuval-Davis International Standards of Equality and Religious Freedom: Implications for the Status of Women, Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations