Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1 Negotiating desire? -- Rewriting desire as empowerment in the Women and Memory Forum's storytelling project / Mona I. Ali -- Islam in urban Bangladesh: Changing worldviews and reconfigured sexuality / Samia Huq -- Loving and fearing: Township girls' agency amidst sexual risk / Deevia Bhana -- PART 2 Body politics and sexualities -- Reporting Anita: Nudity in Nigerian newspapers / Charmaine Periera and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- Ageing women and the culture of eternal youth: Personal and theoretical reflections from a feminist over sixty in Brazil / Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg -- Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)empowerment in the lives of single Palestinian women / Penny Johnson -- PART 3 Changing institutions? -- Narratives of Egyptian marriages / Mulki Al-Sharmani -- Gender and sexuality activism in Beijing: Negotiating international influences and national and local processes / Susie Jolly.