Includes bibliographical references and index.

Saghbine, a Christian village: women, religion and society -- Geography and religious spaces -- The childhood and adolescence of young girls -- Marriage and the condition of married women -- Adulthood, married life, and women's work -- Interview -- christian discourse -- Muslim Lebanese women and an Islamic modernity -- Islam in Lebanon: an overview -- Struggle in modern Islam, women in tradition, and the discourse of the veil -- Veiling and divergent feminism voices -- Personal status laws in Islam, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah's tafsir, and Hizbullah Lebanese women -- Interview -- individual and communal perspectives: Muslim discourse -- Transformation within a multicultural lebanon -- Modernity, multiculturalism, and Lebanese women -- Christian-Muslim relations, women and religion -- Lebanese women in all their diversity: convergence and divergence -- En route toward a more inclusive civil society.