Dear Readers:

We have removed the article "Traveling Soap Operas, Brazil to Kyrgyzstan: Meaning-making and Images of the "Muslim Woman" by Meghan Simpson because of substantial evidence of plagiarism. The JIWS offers a sincere apology to the original author, McBrien, J. 2007 'Brazilian TV and Muslimness in Kyrgyzstan' ISIM Review 19, pp. 16-17 (available online at: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/4946. As well, the JIWS will be discussing instituting a policy for checking the possibilities of plagiarism of our submissions into the review process. We deeply regret any research or teaching that has been informed by the use of this article.

Vol 11, #1, November 2009

Introduction

Introduction
By Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Guest Editor

Articles

Muslim women leaders in the Ferghana Valley: Whose leadership is it anyway?
By Svetlana Peshkova

At the Forefront of a Post-Patriarchal Islamic Education: Female Teachers in Indonesia
By Ann Kull

"People Like Us" in Pursuit of God and Rights: Islamic Feminist Discourse and Sisters in Islam in Malaysia.
By Yasmin Moll

Islamic feminism and Muslim women's rights activism in India: from transnational discourse to local movement - or vice versa?
By Nadja-Christina Schneider

Claiming Their Space: Muslim Women-led Networks and the Women's Movement in India.
By Nida Kirmani

South Asian Muslim American Girl Power: Structures and Symbols of Control and Self-Expression.
By Marcia Hermansen and Mahruq F. Khan

'Breaking the Silence': The Religious Muslim Women’s Movement in Turkey.
By Hilal Ozcetin

Visible under the Veil: Dissimulation, performance and agency in an Islamic public space.
By Julie Billaud

CEDAW and Afghanistan.
By Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims

Gendering the Internally Displaced: Problem Bodies, Fluid Boundaries and Politics of Civil Society Participation in Sri Lanka.
By Sandya Hewamanne

Polygamy Talk and the Politics of Feminism: Contestations over Masculinity in a New Muslim Indonesia.
By Sonja van Wichelen

Stealing Women, Stealing Men: Co-creating Cultures of Polygamy in a Pesantren Community in Eastern Indonesia.
By Bianca J. Smith

Engendering the Nation: Women, Islam, and Poetry in Pakistan.
By Anita Anantharam

Faith-based Politics, Enlightened Moderation and the Pakistani Women's Movement.
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia

Flowers, queens, and goons: Unruly women in rural Pakistan.
By Lubna N. Chaudhry

Historicizing Garment Manufacturing in Bangladesh: Gender, Generation, and New Regulatory Regimes.
By Shelley Feldman

The ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh: A means to reducing gender-based social exclusion of women?
By Nidhi Khosla

Book Reviews

Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women. Parin Dossa.
Reviewed by Ghazala Afzal Orakzai

Islam, Women and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan. Nyla Ali Khan.
Reviewed by Jaskiran Mathur

Living Our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian American Women Narrate Their Experiences. Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha.
Reviewed by Simarjeet Sahota

Velvet Jihad: Muslim Women’s Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism. Faegheh Shirazi.
Reviewed by Stephanie Chaban

Film Reviews

Dishonored. Sigrun Norderval and Gard A. Andreassen. 2007. Brooklyn, NY: Icarus Films. 52 minutes.
They Call Me Muslim: Two women, two choices about the hijab. Diana Ferrero. 2006. Italy/France/Iran, Subtitled. New York, NY: Women Make Movies. 27 minutes.
ARUSI Persian Wedding. Marjan Tehrani. 2008. US/Iran, Subtitled. New York, NY: Women Make Movies. 63 minutes.
Four Wives – One Man. Nahid Persson. Produced by Setareh Persson and Nahid Persson. 2007.
Sweden/Iran, Subtitled. New York, NY: Women Make Movies.76 minutes.

Reviewed by Lydia Foerster