Table of Contents:
  • PART 1 Negotiating desire?
  • Rewriting desire as empowerment in the Women and Memory Forum's storytelling project / Mona I. Ali
  • Islam in urban Bangladesh: Changing worldviews and reconfigured sexuality / Samia Huq
  • Loving and fearing: Township girls' agency amidst sexual risk / Deevia Bhana
  • PART 2 Body politics and sexualities
  • Reporting Anita: Nudity in Nigerian newspapers / Charmaine Periera and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
  • Ageing women and the culture of eternal youth: Personal and theoretical reflections from a feminist over sixty in Brazil / Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg
  • Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)empowerment in the lives of single Palestinian women / Penny Johnson
  • PART 3 Changing institutions?
  • Narratives of Egyptian marriages / Mulki Al-Sharmani
  • Gender and sexuality activism in Beijing: Negotiating international influences and national and local processes / Susie Jolly.