Title: Going Beyond Conflict
Description: Today, most Muslim-majority countries must contend with two realities: Islamists' increasing access to political inclusion on the one hand and domestic and international pressures for women's rights on the other. This dissertation seeks to identify the conditions necessary for resolving tensions between Islamist demands for political inclusion and secular feminists' demands for the institutionalization of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries. Attempts at gender reform have not only been rare, but have also usually excluded either secular feminists or Islamists due to state actors' inability or unwillingness to resolve conflict between them.