Faye D. Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University. She is author of the award-winning "Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community "(California, second edition 1998) and coeditor of "Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction "(California, 1995), among other books. Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Columbia University and author of the award-winning books "Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories "(California, 1993) and "Veiled...