Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics ofgender. The volume charts the shifts in academic discourse and global development practice that shape our understanding of gender both as an object of policy and as a terrain for activism. Nine individual case studies systematically explore how struggles for political control and legitimacy determine boththe ways in which dominant gender orders are safeguarded and the diverse forms of resistance against them. | Gender Governance And Islam by Deniz Kandiyoti, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters