Introduction: Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions / Lila Abu-Lughod.
Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy.
'A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Mervat Hatem.
Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi.
Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt / Omnia Shakry.
The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc / Marilyn Booth.
Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran / Zohreh T. Sullivan.
The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod.
Afterword: Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti.