This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives

Seizing the space opened by the early 1990s democratization movement, Muslim women are carving an active, influential, but often-overlooked role for themselves

Winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies Heldt Prize Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities Book Award Honorable ment

Until now the bulk of the literature about the veil has been written by outsiders who do not themselves veil. This literature often assumes a condescending tone