Anissa Hélie is assistant professor in history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. She is involved with various women's organizations and transnational networks, serving as director of the Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Coordination Office from 2000 to 2005. She is co-author (with Jan Bauer) of Documenting Women's Rights Violations by Non-State Actors: Experiences of Activists from Muslim Communities (2006).

Homa Hoodfar is a professor of anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. Her publications include: Health as a Context for Social and Gender Activism: Female Volunteer Health Workers in Iran (2010); Women, Religion and the 'Afghan Education Movement' in Iran (2008); Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo (2005); and The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates (2003).

Introduction: Policing gender, sexuality and 'Muslimness' - Anissa Hélie
PART I: Tools of policing: the politics of history, community, law
1. The politicization of women's bodies in Indonesia: sexual scripts as charters for action - Vivienne Wee
2. Iranian women and shifting sexual ideologies, 1850-2010 - Claudia Yaghoob
3. Moral panic: the criminalization of sexuality in Pakistan - Hooria Hayat Khan
4. The promise and pitfalls of women challenging Muslim family laws in India and Israel - Yüksel Sezgin
5. Sexuality and inequality: the marriage contract and Muslim legal tradition - Ziba Mir-Hosseini

PART II: Sites of contestation: reclaiming public spaces
6. Purity, sexuality and faith: Chinese women ahong and women's mosques as shelter and strength - Maria Jaschok with Shui Jingjun
7. Veiled transcripts: the private debate on public veiling in Iran - Shadi Sadr
8. Kicking back: the sports arena and sexual politics in Iran - Homa Hoodfar
9. Morality policing and the public sphere: women reclaiming their bodies and their rights - Homa Hoodfar and Ana Ghoreishian
10. 'Living sexualities': non-hetero female sexuality in urban middle-class Bangladesh - Shuchi Karim
11. Risky rights? Gender equality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts - Anissa Hélie