Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen
Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk
Contextualizing conversion
The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald
Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Discourses and narratives
Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk
The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi
Trajectories and paradigms
Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad
African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran
Transmission and identity
How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque
Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.