ABSTRACT
Women's status in the Middle East and the Muslim world today has transformed throughout the twentieth, and into the twenty-first century. Different visions of women's status result in conflict at many levels of analysis, local, regional, and international. This chapter seeks to situate women's struggles with violence and violent practices in the context of forces that oppose Islamism and support secularism. To some degree, it appears that feminist change has been cast in a secularist mold, and this chapter will query this situation.
