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Part I. Comparative perspectives
1. Jewish and Muslim feminist theologies in dialogue: discourses of difference / Susannah Heschel
2. Jewish and Islamic legal traditions: diffusions of law / Amira Sonbol
Part II. Limits of biology: bodily purity and religiosity
3. Scholarly versus women's authority in the Islamic law of menstrual purity / Marion Katz
4. Gender duality and its subversions in rabbinic law / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
5. Gender and reproductive technologies in Shia Iran / Soraya Tremayne
Part III. Crimes of passion: formative texts and traditions
6. Not a man: Joseph and the character of masculinity in Judaism and Islam / Lori Lefkovitz
7. Dishonorable passions: law and virtue in Muslim communities / Catherine Warrick
8. Legislating the family: gender, Jewish law, and rabbinical courts in Mandate Palestine / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Part IV. Cultural depictions of Jewish and Muslim women
9. A Literary perspective: domestic violence, the woman question, and the Arab question in early Zionism / Andrea Siegel
10. An autobiographical perspective: schools, jails, and cemeteries in Shoshanna Levy's life story / Orit Bashkin
11. An artistic perspective: the women of Bahram Beizai's cinema / Hamid Dabashi
Afterword: Common ground, contested terrain / Joan W. Scott.
1. Jewish and Muslim feminist theologies in dialogue: discourses of difference / Susannah Heschel
2. Jewish and Islamic legal traditions: diffusions of law / Amira Sonbol
Part II. Limits of biology: bodily purity and religiosity
3. Scholarly versus women's authority in the Islamic law of menstrual purity / Marion Katz
4. Gender duality and its subversions in rabbinic law / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
5. Gender and reproductive technologies in Shia Iran / Soraya Tremayne
Part III. Crimes of passion: formative texts and traditions
6. Not a man: Joseph and the character of masculinity in Judaism and Islam / Lori Lefkovitz
7. Dishonorable passions: law and virtue in Muslim communities / Catherine Warrick
8. Legislating the family: gender, Jewish law, and rabbinical courts in Mandate Palestine / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Part IV. Cultural depictions of Jewish and Muslim women
9. A Literary perspective: domestic violence, the woman question, and the Arab question in early Zionism / Andrea Siegel
10. An autobiographical perspective: schools, jails, and cemeteries in Shoshanna Levy's life story / Orit Bashkin
11. An artistic perspective: the women of Bahram Beizai's cinema / Hamid Dabashi
Afterword: Common ground, contested terrain / Joan W. Scott.