Abu-Lughod, L., ed.: Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West.
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social thinkers working on the postcolonial world. The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Review: Table of Contents This book has been translated into: Spanish Japanese Series: Lila Abu-Lughod - Columbia University. Mahmood, S.: Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Saba Mahmood | Anthropology Department, UC Berkeley. Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law. Review of Women, family and gender in Islamic law, by Tucker, J.E.