Formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East / Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo -- Women's NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa : constraints, opportunities, and priorities / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The reproduction of political process among women activists in Lebanon : 'shopkeepers' and feminists / Suad Joseph -- Domesticity reconfigured : women in squatter areas of Amman / Seteney Shami -- Women in groups in Africa : female associational patterns in Senegal and Morocco / Eva Evers Rosander -- Bahraini women in formal and informal groups : the politics of identification / May Seikaly -- The impact of social and economic factors on women's group formation in Egypt / Shahida El-Baz -- Feminism and contemporary debates in Egypt / Nadje Sadig Al-Ali -- From gender equality to female subjugation : the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni -- Women organized in groups : expanding the terms of the debate / Nancy Lindisfarne.