Women, Shi'ism and cuisine in Iran / Shireen Mahdavi -- CMS women missionaries in Iran, 1891-1934 / Gulnar Eleanor Francis-Dehqani -- Presbyterian vocation to reform gender relations in Iran / Michael Zirinsky -- Women and journalism in Iran / Hossein Shahidi -- From the royal harem to a post-modern Islamic society / Anna Vanzan -- Gender and the army of knowledge in Pahlavi Iran, 1968-1979 / Farian Sabahi -- From Islamization to the individualization of women in post-revolutionary Iran / Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut -- Politicization of women's religious circles in post-revolutionary Iran / Azam Torab -- Islam, women and civil rights / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Perceptions of gender roles among female Iranian immigrants in the United States / Ali Akbar Mahdi -- Communities in place and communities in space / Asghar Fathi