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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 252–253.
Published: 01 May 2005
...- ported not only by these women’s testimonies but Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: also by interviews with hostel and community lead- Malevolent Geographies ers, and by an extensive survey of local newspaper...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 250–259.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Fatemeh Sadeghi © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Negotiating with Modernity: Young Women and Sexuality in Iran Fatemeh Sadeghi...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 372–373.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Hormoz Ebrahimnejad Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 3: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health Suad Joseph, ed. Leiden: Brill, 2006 XXIV, 564 pp., $356.00 (cloth) © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion as having a limited...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 214–226.
Published: 01 May 2005
... oLt-ieenhCnuyEgypt Late-Nineteenth-Century to Mid- in Respectability and Assault Sexual Violated: Virginity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 673–679.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Ziba Mir-Hosseini © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Sexual Love in Iranian Cinema Ziba Mir-Hosseini omen and sexual love are time-honored — but problematic — themes in Iranian cin- ema. Soon after the 1979 revolution...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 691–692.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Mona L. Russell Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 Dror Ze'evi Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 xv + 171 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Producing Desire...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 196–216.
Published: 01 May 2011
...İrvin Cemil Schick Increasingly, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, publications appeared in the Ottoman Empire that took issue with traditional norms of gender and sexuality and advocated alternatives. They criticized arranged marriages and supported companionate unions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 3–20.
Published: 01 May 2016
... suggests this is unlikely and that understanding recent patterns of homophobia requires understanding local cultures of same-sex practice and the anxieties underlying political attempts to regulate sexuality. The article also makes some preliminary suggestions for how such an account might be attempted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 81–89.
Published: 01 August 1993
... of Mustang District,” Contributions to Nepalese Studies , 12 , 1 , 1 –55. Weber , Max , 1958 . The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons). South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI11 Nos. 1 8r 9 (1993) He’s No Good: Sexual Division...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 May 2019
... that it was meant to solve yet actually aggravated. Contrasting the private car to the public bus—and stressing zahma , population control, and regulation of sexuality—brought to the fore gendered aspects of automobility and especially sexual harassment rather than issues such as energy efficiency, traffic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 204–213.
Published: 01 August 2010
... many debates and controversies revolve. By focusing on the “special” nature not only of sexual crime but also of suffering as a result of it, I argue that genuine compensation for the victims of structural and catastrophic violence can be sought only when 1) one steps outside the framework of modesty...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 437–446.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of sexuality, militarization, and religion. Amireh argues that these silences were justified by a hegemonic national prioritization paradigm that evaded dealing with women’s issues and by a smear campaign conducted against women activists and NGOs by a vocal Islamist movement that, unlike the secular national...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 525–538.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the ground to the “micro-rebellious body” of the naked, tortured, and sexually harassed female protestor. Nevertheless, this article discusses, the individual assertive body reproduced through these images is usually defined through the paradigm of gender oppression versus sexual liberation and self...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 212–222.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of knowing what not to narrate in relation to the disavowed pasts of 1971 in Pakistan. It draws on long-term ethnographic research on the public memories and nationalist narratives of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war of 1971, along with discussions with various Pakistani scholars and students...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 638–655.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Sandhya Shetty Abstract Long read in relation to public health and gender/sexual mores, Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927) has rarely been viewed from an animal studies perspective. This article proposes that the animal, tethered to the woman question and to the figure of the Muslim, is integral...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 633–643.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in the early medieval period. The essay thus uncovers a history of falsity and warring falsities and then correlates the tendencies of figuration that seemed to prove inseparable from the poetic conquest of political reality in Sanskrit. It traces tropes of sadism and sexual abuse and uncovers the threads...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 418–434.
Published: 01 December 2016
... this process. Four aspects of modern literary history writing receive particular focus here: engagement with the tazkirah tradition, inclusion of extraliterary national figures alongside poets, use of a shared set of references and sources, and new sexual aesthetics that break with the homoerotic Persianate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 214–217.
Published: 01 August 2010
... and neoliberal state policies, and also their effort to create public policies sensitive to feminist concerns. Sen emphasizes the necessity of being attentive to interlinkages and tensions among the host of issues that the network confronts, such as trade policy and sexual and reproductive health rights. Duke...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 533–546.
Published: 01 December 2010
... for the migration of many Iranian women moving into the informal economy of sex work. In this essay, I argue that the disjuncture between paradigms of Iranian women's sexualities and actual experiences of and reasons for migration to Dubayy results in complicated challenges to migrant Iranian women's agency as well...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 116–129.
Published: 01 May 2012
... explores a recent German theater performance ( Black Virgins , 2006) that poses itself against such victimization stories. The analysis of the performance shows, however, that the subjectivity of Muslim minority women is framed by their ability to unveil in speech and talk freely about sexuality. I...