Dr. Ilse Lenz, Professor of Sociology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; Dr. Helma Lutz, Professor, University of Munster, Germany; Dr. Mirjana Morokvasic, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Professor, Universite Paris X, France, and Institute of Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan; Dr. Claudia Schoning-Kalender, International Women's University, Hannover (ifu); Helen Schwenken M.A., is a graduate research and teaching assistant at Kassel University in the field of Globalization and Politics

• I: Nationalisms, Racisms, Ethnicisms.- ‘Housewives of the Public’ The Cultural Signification of the Sri Lankan Nation.- The Militarizing of Civil Society: Creation of the Mujahid (Warrior) and the ‘Good Woman’ in Pakistani Society.- The Long Shadows of the Past. The New Europe at a Crossroad.- A Monocultural Nation in a Multi-Cultural Society? British Continuities and Discontinuities in the Racialised and Gendered Nation.- II: Space, Cultures and Identities in Process.- Gender, Dress and Nation — The Modernization Discourse in Turkey.- The Performative Vernacular: An Approach to City and Gender.- Displaying the Other. Tribal Museums and the Politics of Culture in India.- Analytic Boarderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City.- III: Transnational Gender Democracy: Difference and Equality.- Feminist and Migrant Networking in a Globalising World Migration, Gender and Globalisation.- International Women’s Networks, Social Justice and Cross-Border Democracy.- Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML): A Women’s Movement in the Islamic/Muslim World between Struggles, Strength, Challenges and Empowerment.- Support, Lobbying and Networking in the Context of Trafficking in Women.- Overcoming the Culture of Impunity for Wartime Sexual Violence — The Historical Significance of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal 2000.- The Authors and editors.