Identity politics refers to discourses and movements organized around questions of religious, ethnic, and national identity. This volume focuses on political cultural movements that are making a bid for state power, for fundamental juridical change, or for cultural hegemony. In particular, the contributors explore the relations of culture, identity

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives -- Introduction: Women and Identity Politics in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective -- The Creation of the World We Know: The World-Economy and the Re-creation of Gendered Identities -- The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity -- Gender as an Ethno-Marker: Rape, War, and Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia -- Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Woman Question in Iran -- Country Case Studies -- Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria -- Gender, Religious Identity, and Political Mobilization in Sudan -- Feminism and Muslim Fundamentalism: The Tunisian and Algerian Cases -- The Social Representation of Women in Algeria's Islamist Movement -- Gender Activism: Feminists and Islamists in Egypt -- Identity Politics and Women: "Fundamentalism" and Women in Pakistan -- Moving Away from a Secular Vision? Women, Nation, and the Cultural Construction of Hindu India -- Identity Politics and the Contemporary Indian Feminist Movement -- Women and Fundamentalism: The Case of Turkey -- Halakha, Zionism, and Gender: The Case of Gush Emunim -- The Role, Place, and Power of Middle-Class Women in the Islamic Republic -- Paradoxical Politics: Gender Politics Among Newly Orthodox Jewish Women in the United States -- Women of the New Right in the United States: Family, Feminism, and Politics -- Dilemmas and Strategies -- The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws -- Identity Politics and Women's Ethnicity -- International Standards of Equality and Religious Freedom: Implications for the Status of Women