Acknowledgments -- Note on transcription -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 -- What's a good woman to do? Recasting the symbolics of moral exemplars -- 2. Surprises from the laps of mothers: Leveraging the gaps in procreative virtues -- 3. Scripture, sacred law, and hermeneutics: exploring gendered meanings in textual records -- 4. Performance beyond the pulpit: Presenting disorderly bodies in public spaces -- 5. Republication of moral discourse: Compromise and censorship as political freedom -- Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Revisiting Mrs. Habibi and feminist politics -- Glossary of working definitions and commonly used Arabic and Persian words -- References.
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