Acknowledgements - Glossary - List of Abbreviations - Background and Theoretical Considerations - Living Fieldwork, Writing Ethnography - The State and Islamists - Islamisms and the Seeds of Disciplinary Power - Women Activists and Women\'s Organizations - Current Debates on Women\'s Legal Rights - Islamism and Gender: Male Perspectives - Islamisms and Gender: Three Generations of Women\'s Perspectives - Feminisms, Islamisms and the State: or the Power of Feminisms - Bibliography - Index