...KAMRAN ASDAR ALI Myths, Lies, and Impotence: Structural Adjustment and Male Voice in Egypt1 KAMRAN ASDAR ALI In the first few minutes of Sharif Arafa’s 1996 Egyp- tance of this position the film develops this theme as a tian film Al Nom fi el asal (lit: sleeping with honey),2 we metaphor...

... a photographic image of young people performing all sorts of dangerous two groups of children, male and female, con- activities, like playing with knives, touching a verging into a single mass. The young girls are hot pot, or jumping into a fire. The caption be- depicted in full- length chadors while...

... on the same terms as the male characters. Feminist scholarship has characterized the 1950s and 1960s as a moment of paucity in women's writing and decline in feminist politics. Yet Bhandari's and Chudamani's distinct uses of a language of entitlement offer a deeper understanding of the role of the literary...

... of struggles against the colonial regimes, on the one hand, and the different projects of national state building, on the other hand. Central to these processes is a male-interpretation of Islam that has defined the way women would be incorporated into “nationhood” and would become “citizens...

...Patrizia Granziera While the cult of trees is widespread in India, it is only in the south of India and especially in Tamil Nadu that the visitor frequently sees the pipal tree, symbolically considered male, planted together with a neem tree so that the two will grow together, their trunks...

... in dormitories and the adoption of European-style male clothing. It examines how in Muslim Africa these legacies intersect with those of European colonialism and its civilizing mission. 36. Koçu, İstanbul Ansiklopedisi . 37. Karaosmanoğlu, Kiralık Konak , 10 . Translations are mine. 38...

...Marilyn Booth Comparing He-Yen Jhen’s work to that of her Egyptian contemporary Malak Hifni Nasif allows lateral thinking across Asian and African societies on how feminists articulated their stances with regard to male counterparts in their own societies, as well as the shifting gender...

.... This essay examines the issue of gender in her poetry and personality. It argues that she wrote as a woman but in the poetic male voice. She wrote at a time when Urdu in the Deccan region was being altered to conform to Mogul standards with heavy “Persianization” of its diction. The essay asks whether...

.... What seems to be a seamless order of extreme male dominance is actually fraught with significant contradictions. Studying these fissures more deeply should be a high priority for scholars concerned with understanding the future of Arabian Peninsula societies. Duke University Press 2008...

...,” Ethnology , 12 , 203 –225. Ortner , Sherry B. , 1974 . “Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?” in Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist, and Louise Lamphere (eds.), Woman, Culture and Society (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), 67 –87. Parker , Barbara , 1985 . The Spirit of Wealth...

...; an uncannily colonial) nationalism. Therefore, while it is not my accurate one. From the beginning, the Tigers were intention to erase or even downplay important male in constitution and gendered in ideology. In time differences between his account of national liberation they came to symbolize...

... Is Islam? , 33n81 . 10. See Merguerian and Najmabadi, “Zulaykha and Yusuf.” 11. For Majnun and Layla, see Ahmed, 312–17. 12. See Ali, “Omnipresent Male Scholar.” 13. Virginia Woolf has named the female condition of having symbolic rather than legal, social, or economic power...

... Press, Berkeley. Gothaskar , S. , and R. Banaji ( 1984 ). ‘A Challenge for Unions: Women's Employment in Pharmaceuticals and Food Industries’ in Manushi no. 23. Gulati , L. ( 1982 ). Profiles in Female Poverty . Pergamon Press. Gulati , L. ( 1983 ). ‘Male Migration...

... whose author Another 171–201. (2001): Egypt,” Century inTurn-of-the-Twentieth- ‘Women’s Press’ the and Men Islam: in “Woman Booth, Marilyn see readership, female and male and fatherhood, of construction the nationalism, masculinity, of ern MiddleEast Tucker, Judith and eds...

... collection and framing of questions are very important This paper brings together available evidence on for accurate assessment of women’s economic changing levels and patterns of women’s employment in participation. In this situation the use of male Pakistan. In this context the study reviews...

..., main of women. Male-dominated forms of poetry are and are often sung. Verse may be performed on its generally regarded as the more serious and worthy of own, or it may be included within narratives, public public repetition (oral publication). However, female- speeches, and everyday...

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... Table 1: Comparative Social Indicators on Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, mid-1980s Social Indicators Iran Afghanistan Pakistan Population: male 25,491,645 8,170,000 50,6 14,000 female 24,365,739 7,700,000...