Introduction: Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy -- 'A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Mervat Hatem -- Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt / Omnia Shakry -- The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc / Marilyn Booth -- Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran / Zohreh T. Sullivan -- The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Afterword: Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti.