Soft force: women in Egypt's Islamic awakening

Introduction : the Islamic public sphere and the subject of gender : the politics of the personal

Women's liberation in Islam. The liberation of Islamic letters : Bint al-Shatiʼ's literary license ; The redemption of women's liberation : reviving Qasim Amin

Gendering Islamic subjectivities. Senses of self : Niʼmat Sidqi's theology of motherhood ; Covering in the public eye : visualizing the inner I

Politics of the Islamic family. The Islamic homeland : Iman Mustafa on women's work ; Soft force : Heba Raouf Ezzat's politics of the Islamic family

Epilogue : Fann wa-fitra : art and instinct.