Contents
1Daddy Issues: Reza Shah, Atatürk, and Comparison as Personification
2A Modern Empress: Modernization Theory and the Politics of Beauty
3Aspirational Whiteness and Honorary Blackness: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Defiance
4Veiled Agents: Islamic Feminism, Similitude, and the Limits of Solidarity
5America’s Coy Lovers: Claiming Mysticism and Dialogue from the Cold War to the War on Terror