Chapter
PART I | Tools of policing: the politics of history, community, law
1 The politicization of women’s bodies in Indonesia: sexual scripts as charters for action
Sexual scripts, indigenous contexts and Islamism
Sexual dimensions of Dutch colonialism
The politics of polarization
Resisting the disciplining of unruly women
Rewriting sexual scripts as alternative charters for action
2 Iranian women and shifting sexual ideologies, 1850–2010
Sexuality in pre-modernity urban Iran, 1850–1925
Sexuality and the introduction of modernity, 1925–79
Reformulation of sexuality under the Islamic Republic
3 Moral panic: the criminalization of sexuality in Pakistan
Cultural notions of control
On the question of consent
4 The promise and pitfalls of women challenging Muslim family laws in India and Israel
How do Muslim family laws affect women’s rights and sexuality?
Muslim women’s responses to rights violations and sexual subjugation
5 Sexuality and inequality: the marriage contract and Muslim legal tradition
Sexuality and inequality in classical fiqh texts
Sexuality and inequality in contemporary Islamic discourses
The forming of a new discourse
PART II | Sites of contestation: reclaiming public spaces
6 Purity, sexuality and faith: Chinese women ahong and women’s mosques as shelter and strength
Gendered constructs of women’s purity, jie, and shame, xiuti
Nüsi women’s mosque as a contested space
Sexual morality: Muslims, chaste wives and virtuous mothers
Women ahong as influential role models and exemplary leaders
Enacting purity and challenging the patriline of faith
Sermon of a women ahong: reading against the text
7 Veiled transcripts: the private debate on public veiling in Iran
Arguments for and against veiling
8 Kicking back: the sports arena and sexual politics in Iran
Women’s sport, modernity and social change in Iran
Daily discipline and early resistance
From the Olympics to Muslim women’s solidarity games
Football and Freedom Stadium: struggling for space and a public presence
Collective action: the Open Stadiums Campaign
President Ahmadinejad’s controversial move
9 Morality policing and the public sphere: women reclaiming their bodies and their rights
The political evolution of morality police
Reaching out: women and public space in Saudi Arabia
Everyday action as street politics: Iranian women facing morality police
Malaysian women’s struggle against religious fatwas
Algerian women’s struggle against fundamentalists within and without the state
10 ‘Living sexualities’: non-hetero female sexuality in urban middle-class Bangladesh
Construction of Bengali women’s sexuality
Living non-heterosexualities in the household
‘Private social lives’: creating space for the socio-sexual self
Keeping it ‘under the radar’: making use of homo-sociability
11 Risky rights? Gender equality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts
Representations: The politicization of ‘gay Muslims’ and ‘Muslim women’
The West and the Rest: a broad spectrum of discrimination
Rights, restrictions and resistance in Muslim contexts
Sexuality in Muslim Contexts
：Restrictions and Resistance
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