Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance

Introduction: Policing gender, sexuality and 'Muslimness'
Anissa Hélie

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
Vivienne Wee
2. Iranian women and shifting sexual ideologies, 1850-2010
Claudia Yaghoob
3. Moral panic: the criminalization of sexuality in Pakistan
Hooria Hayat Khan
4. The promise and pitfalls of women challenging Muslim family laws in India and Israel
Yüksel Sezgin
5. Sexuality and inequality: the marriage contract and Muslim legal tradition
Ziba Mir-Hosseini

PART II: Sites of contestation: reclaiming public spaces
6. Purity, sexuality and faith: Chinese women ahong and women's mosques as shelter and strength
Maria Jaschok with Shui Jingjun
7. Veiled transcripts: the private debate on public veiling in Iran
Shadi Sadr
8. Kicking back: the sports arena and sexual politics in Iran
Homa Hoodfar
9. Morality policing and the public sphere: women reclaiming their bodies and their rights
Homa Hoodfar and Ana Ghoreishian
10. 'Living sexualities': non-hetero female sexuality in urban middle-class Bangladesh
Shuchi Karim
11. Risky rights? Gender equality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts
Anissa Hélie