Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Table of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction and overview -- A new government and a new vision for the Tunisian Women's Rights Movement -- Significance and timeliness of the subject -- Transnational co-authorship -- Note to readers -- 2 Historical underpinnings of the modern Tunisian woman -- Geography, antiquity, and women -- Women of the early modern era in Ottoman Tunisia -- End of Ottoman rule, French colonialism, and the rise of nationalism -- Transitioning into the 20th century and the start of "organized" women's movements -- Nationalism, women, and growing sentiment for independence -- Women taking action -- The female renegades -- Women's civic and political engagement -- Feminizing the press -- Summary -- 3 Tunisia's independence and women's first step towards emancipation -- The CSP - changes and challenges for Tunisian society -- More legal reforms -- The national development project and women -- The state feminism debate -- The National Union of Tunisian Women (UNFT) - entity of the State -- A changing attitude -- 4 A new kind of women's movement finds its footing -- Club Tahar Haddad - in a different voice -- A shifting sociopolitical and economic landscape - a new direction for women? -- State agencies and women's autonomous organizations in competition -- Inheritance law - women's greatest legal hurdle -- Locating common ground to advance women's rights -- 5 Women talking: generational voices at the dawn of the new millennium -- Early signs of malaise for the feminist movement -- Veiling - mixed meanings amid growing disenchantment -- The CSP in theory and practice - 50 years later -- Unfinished business -- A new decade, a new millennium, and growing disillusionment