Huma Ahmed-Ghosh is Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University and the editor of Asian Muslim Women: Globalization and Local Realities, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionHuma Ahmed-GhoshPart I. Whose Feminism? Muslim Women Redefining "Empowerment" 1. Muslim Women’s Leadership in Uzbekistan: Religion and EmotionSvetlana Peshkova2. Feminization of Islam? Agency and Visibility of Women in Southern Thailand’s Branch of the Tablighi Jama’at’s Missionary MovementAlexander Horstmann3. Women’s Empowerment in the Xi’an Muslim DistrictMaris Boyd Gillette4. The Influence of the National Question on Gender Issues in the Muslim Areas of the Southern Philippines: Maranao Muslim Women between Retraditionalization and Islamic ResurgenceBirte Brecht-DrouartPart II. Feminisms and Muslim Women’s Movements in Contested Spaces5. The Headscarf Ban and Muslim Women’s Rights Discourse in TurkeyZeynep Akbulut 6. Intersecting Dynamics: Representational Activism and New Mobilities among "Muslim Women" in IndiaNadja-Christina Schneider7. Islamic Feminism between Interpretive Freedom and Legal Codification: The Case of Sisters in Islam in MalaysiaYasmin Moll8. Faith-based Challenges to the Women’s Movement in PakistanAfiya Shehrbano ZiaPart III. Transnational Feminisms: Locating Muslim Women at the Crossroads 9. From Dhaka to Cincinnati: Charting Transnational Narratives of Trauma, Victimization, and SurvivalElora Halim Chowdhury10. Governance Feminism’s Imperial Misadventure: Progress International Law, and the Security of Afghan WomenCyra Akila Choudhury11. Islam, Feminism, and Agency in Germany TodayBeverly M. WeberContributorsIndex

"An educational, insightful, and powerful read." — Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual"Contesting Feminisms attempts to offer nuanced understandings of Muslim women's struggles that are firmly rooted in close attention to local social, economic, and historical contexts with an eye to opening up theoretical spaces in which to examine local and transnational feminist Muslim activism. As such, the volume offers rich insights into women's lives and struggles in moving away from the reductionist frame of a strictly Qur'anic view of women that is mobilized by both Western detractors and Islamic normativizers to constrain women's agency, and instead brings into view the heterogeneity of Muslim women's lives and struggles." — Zayn Kassam, editor of Women and Islam