The issues surrounding women, feminism and fundamentalism are currently being debated throughout the world at every level and by every segment of humanity In this volume a broad spectrum of views and perspectives are presented What the authors have in common, however, is that they all distance themselves from what is known today as ‘secular fundamentalism’, an approach that claims that only secular Reason brings truth and progress, such as equal rights for women. In contrast with strongly secularist feminists like Susan Moller Okin and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the authors in this volume argue that a struggle for women’s rights is possible within non-secular contexts.Several articles explore the lives of orthodox religious women and reflect on the relationship between fundamentalism and feminism in religious contexts, discussing among others Saba Mahmood’s path-breaking study on women in the Egyptian Women’s Mosque Movement.On a more concrete level, a
