... feminist scholarship and activism in the context of the Middle East. Importantly, Shohat’s perspectives on the intersections of race, gender, and nation (chaps. 13 and 20), situated in antiracist feminist theory, anticipate recent modes of engagement around the Middle East in fields such as American...

... in the face of bereavement. One of the book’s most notable aspects is its expansive definition of what participation in war entails. It begins with the stories of women who never left the front line as their cities were invaded by Iraq (chap. 3); turns to the women of the state who were part...

... activism, methods, demands, and dynamics. Part 2 of the book, “Activism” (chap. 4–conclusion), introduces the ethnographic intervention of the book by examining women’s strategies of online-offline activism. Using a combination of “face to face interviews, two online surveys, and historical...

... of the city, provide an empirically rigorous study of the relationship between leisure and morality that draws on a wide range of methodological sources, including interviews with café owners and entrepreneurs (chap. 2) and leading Shiʿi Islamic jurisprudents (chap. 4), a survey-driven analysis...

..., industrialization, and export strategies (chaps. 4–5), thus eliding the mechanisms by which domestic patriarchy shifted to public patriarchy. Still, I recommend the book highly. It is excellent for classroom use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on feminist political economy, Turkish economic...

... for same-sex rights (chap. 4); the use of press, social media, and media production in LGBTI activism in Turkey (chap. 5); electoral and legislative strategies (chap. 6); and other miscellaneous forms including provision of services by LGBTI NGOs and transnational network-building practices (chap. 7...

...), in which discourses of a US mandate over Turkey and selective and over-Westernization take root. Gürel charts how the figure of “the West” continues to recur and be remade—in the Turkish novel (chap. 2), in political humor (chap. 3), and finally in “panic narratives” about inappropriate or illegible sexual...

... politically and from the perspective of market segmentation—the latter traversing insights regarding retail practices (chap. 5) and a discussion of the presence of Muslim fashion online (chap. 6). However, the central narrative of the book is that of Muslim subject formation as it is reflected in fashion...

... entanglement of contested identities, sites of accountability, and political struggles. Structured around two events and the moments that precede and follow them, the book opens with “Before” (introd.)—that is, before “Awareness” (chap. 1)—and thereafter leads to “Understanding” (chap. 11). “Before” delineates...

... (chap. 1), for pleasure. Chapter 3 gives an account of a spontaneous prayer, or doʾa . Unlike namaz, doʾa is not obligatory and is done in Persian instead of Arabic. Further, there is a difference between the doʾa spontaneously performed and the doʾa written by imams in the form of prayer...

... occupation (chaps. 3 and 4) and within the United States’ employment, legal, and bureaucratic practices (chaps. 5 and 6). Madeline Otis Campbell’s Interpreters of Occupation provides an intimate account of the United States’ gendered and imperialist practices in the Middle East. Her narrative revolves...

..., is crucial in this work. Time passes, and certain elements of these women’s everyday lives change, yet there is continuity in state violence and oppression. The book aims to show its readers that hope and determination have not withered away in Kurdistan. Bayan Salman (chap. 4) writes that a possibly...

... divideddivided intointo fi veve chap-chap- ters in addition to the Introduction and Conclusion. Chapter one, titled “Women of the Republic and Islam: Between the Private and the Po- litical,” examines the consequences of being an Islamist woman in the Turkish context. Women who had long...

... Asian experiences of Muslim women who desire to be “virtuous in creative ways” (266). Th e chapters of Women Shaping Islam are arranged with respect to the two largest Indonesian Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah (chaps. 3–4) and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU; chaps. 5–7). In chapter 2...

... and agency of their justice. The book is comprised of two parts in five chapters as well as an -In troduction, a Conclusion, and an Epilogue. In addition, it includes Notes, a Bibliography, and an Index. Part 1 deals with “Zina Discourses.” Chap- ter 1 looks at discussions of zina in the Qur’an...

.... Particularly strong are her chap- ters discussing women’s roles within the Turkish Islamist movement. As she correctly and effectively demonstrates, the roles and actions women perform within the movement often seem highly contradictory to Westerners. Whether they are in fact...

... participation in public space established by the Qur’an had historical antecedents in the Jahiliyya period. Amira El-Zein’s chap- ter evaluates how social regulations on male/female communication of Hijaz elites in literary salons were important to delimiting social class in the Umayyad period. A chapter...

... RUSSELL  21 points of view of quality and quantity” (1887, chap. 1, sec. 1). Despite the fact that he valued various forms of labor and the artistry involved in craftsmanship, Marx nevertheless had little interest in clothing design, referring to it as the “murderous, meaningless caprices...

..., and cultural politics. For much of Morocco’s postindependence history, there have been significant state-led efforts to actively marginalize Amazigh activism and expression. Jonathan Wyrtzen ( 2016 : chap. 3) is one scholar who has drawn on Amazigh poetry to remedy this silence, yet much historical poetry...

... has remarked, some recent testimonials by Afghan women actually frustrate expectations that such a thematic trajectory might raise (Whitlock 2007, chap. 2). Although Girls of Riyadh is fiction, its market potential is based partly on this recent popularity and iconography...