Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed--the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet ...

These essays by leading Islamic women scholars in North America give voice to and are evidence of the growing network of Muslim women involved with the issues of women's human ...

"Bleak, brilliant, and powerfully hallucinatory . . . Mutabaruka has a secret, unsparing knowledge of the hearts of fathers and sons, who seek always and futilely to escape ...

Torn between her disparate roles as dutiful Muslim daughter and independent American woman, Layla reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage to an Indian man she does not know ...