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This groundbreaking volume explores how Islamic discourse and practice intersect with gender relations and broader political and economic processes to shape women's geographies in a variety of regional contexts. Contributors represent a wide range of disciplinary subfields and perspectives--cultural geography, political geography, development studies, migration studies, and historical geography--yet they share a common focus on bringing issues of space and place to the forefront of analyses of Muslim women's experiences. Themes addressed include the intersections of gender, development and religion; mobility and migration; and discourse, representation, and the contestation of space. In the process, the book challenges many stereotypes and assumptions about the category of ""Muslim woman,"" so often invoked in public debate in both traditional societies and the West.
Introduction, Caroline Nagel I. GENDER, DEVELOPMENT, AND RELIGION 1. Growing Up in Gilgit: Exploring the Nature of Girlhood in Northern Pakistan, Sarah J. Halvorson 2. (Re)Defining Public Spaces through Developmental Education for Afghan Women, Naheed Gina Aaftaab 3. A Space of Her Own: Women, Work and Desire in an Afghan Nomad Community, Diana K. Davis 4. Changing Identities and Changing Spaces in Village Landscapes of Settled Pastoralists in Eastern Morocco, Susanne H. Steinmann II. GEOGRAPHIES OF MOBILITY 5. Transnational Islam: Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Rachel Silvey 6. Moral Geographies and Women's Freedom: Rethinking Freedom Discourse in the Moroccan Context, Amy Freeman 7. Negotiating Spaces of the Home, the Education System, and the Labor Market: The Case of Young, Working-Class, British Pakistani Muslim Women, Robina Mohammad III. DISCOURSE, REPRESENTATION, AND THE CONTESTATION OF SPACE 8. Islamism, Democracy and the Political Production of the Headscarf Issue in Turkey, Anna Secor 9. Social Transformation and Islamic Reinterpretation in Northern Somalia: The Women's Mosque in Gabiley, Abdi Ismail Samatar 10. Gendered Space in the Lebanese Women Tobacco Workers' Strike of 1970, Malek Abisaab 11. Writing Place and Gender in Novels by Tunisian Women Writers, Marc Brosseau and Leila Ayari 12. The Visual Representation of Muslim/Arab Women in the Daily Newspapers in the United States, Ghazi-Walid Falah
