A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a 'Muslim' identity in selected Muslim-majority countries. Contributors take on the most fundamental questions at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the body.

Introduction, GulOzyegin; Part 1 Challenged Masculinities; Chapter 1 In Vitro Nationalism, Salih CanAç?ksöz; Chapter 2 Challenged Masculinities, MustafaAbdalla; Chapter 3 Of Migration, Marriage, and Men, Aisha AneesMalik; Chapter 4 "Men Are Less Manly, Women Are More Feminine", CenkÖzbay; Chapter 5 Between Ideals and Enactments, Fatma UmutBe?p?nar; Chapter 6 The Janissaries and Their Bedfellows, SerkanDelice; Part 2 Producing Muslim Femininities, Sexualities, and Gender Relations; Chapter 7 The Continuous Making of Pure Womanhood among Muslim Women in Cairo, Maria FrederikaMalmström; Chapter 8 Introduction to "In Conversation on Female Genital Cutting", Victoria A.Castillo; Chapter 9 In Conversation on Female Genital Cutting, Goran A. SabirZangana, Maria FrederikaMalmström, FaithBarton; Chapter 10 "I've Had to Be the Man in This Marriage", JessicaCarlisle; Chapter 11 Negotiating Courtship Practices and Redefining Tradition, Lindsey A.Conklin, Sandra NasserEl-Dine; Part 3 Mahrem, the Gaze, and Intimate Gender and Sexual Crossings; Chapter 12 Identity in Alterity, SaadiaAbid; Chapter 13 The Daring Mahrem, SertaçSehlikoglu; Chapter 14 Sexing the Hammam, ElyseSemerdjian; Part 4 The Desiring, Protesting Body and Muslim Authenticity in Fiction and Political Discourses; Chapter 15 Women's Writing in the Land of Prohibitions, Miral MahgoubAl-Tahawy; Chapter 16 Rewriting the Body in the Novels of Contemporary Syrian Women Writers, MartinaCensi; Chapter 17 The Virgin Trials, SherineHafez; Part 5 Re-Theorizing Iranian Diaspora and "Islamic Feminism" in Iran; Chapter 18 Can the Secular Iranian Women's Activist Speak?, LeilaMouri, Kristin SorayaBatmanghelichi; Chapter 19 Queering the "Iranian" and the "Diaspora" of the Iranian Diaspora, FarhangRouhani;