Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution; 2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979; 3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam; 4. The First Gulf War and Saudi ""Gender Apartheid; 5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s; 6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration; 7. Muslim Women's Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments
Summary
U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy