Dorothy L. Hodgson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Introduction: Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights
—Dorothy L. Hodgson

PART I. IMAGES AND INTERVENTIONS
1. Gender, History, and Human Rights
—Pamela Scully
2. Between Law and Culture: Contemplating Rights for Women in Zanzibar
—Salma Maoulidi
3. A Clash of Cultures: Women, Domestic Violence, and Law in the United States
—Sally F. Goldfarb

PART II. TRAVELS AND TRANSLATIONS
4. Making Women's Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide
—Peggy Levitt and Sally Engle Merry
5. The Active Social Life of "Muslim Women's Rights"
—Lila Abu-Lughod
6. How Not to Be a Machu Qari (Old Man): Human Rights, Machismo, and Military Nostalgia in Peru's Andes
—Caroline Yezer
7. "These Are Not Our Priorities": Maasai Women, Human Rights, and the Problem of Culture
—Dorothy L. Hodgson

PART III. MOBILIZATIONS AND MEDIATIONS
8. The Rights to Speak and to Be Heard: Women's Interpretations of Rights Discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement
—Lynn Stephen
9. Muslim Women, Rights Discourse, and the Media in Kenya
—Ousseina D. Alidou
10. Fighting for Fatherhood and Family: Immigrant Detainees' Struggles for Rights
—Robyn M. Rodriguez
11. Defending Women, Defending Rights: Transnational Organizing in a Culture of Human Rights
—Mary Jane N. Real

Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments