Search Results for Egypt

...Margot Badran 152  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  10:2 Book Reviews mn Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt Laura Bier. New York: Stanford...

...Diane Singerman DIANE SINGERMAN  1 RESTORING THE FAMILY TO CIVIL SOCIETY: LESSONS FROM EGYPT Diane Singerman  otions of civil society that focus...

...L. L. Wynn Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt Ghannam Farha Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . 222 pages. isbn 9780804783293 Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 Editors’ note: Live and Die Like...

...Omnia El Shakry Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics , Baron Beth . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. xv, 287 . ISBN 0520238575 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 106  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...

...Kavita Philip The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt , Shakry Omnia El . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Pp. xii, 328 . ISBN 978-0-8047-5567-2 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...

..., and the politics of human and women’s rights. She is the author of three award-winning ethnographies based on fieldwork in Egypt ( Veiled Sentiments , Writing Women’s Worlds , and Dramas of Nationhood ) and has edited or co-edited several books including Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East...

...Sunny Daly Uncertainties and ambiguities are evident in discourses of contemporary women’s activisms in Egypt, as are anxieties about young women’s roles in them. In spite of a tendency to take the NGO for granted as the site of activism in Egypt, this article highlights the activities of young...

..., in factories or as domestic servants, violated classed and gendered notions of respectability. Theft offered the possibility of material gain without great loss in status if one were captured, since poor and working-class women who lived in Egypt’s growing cities between the two world wars already had...

...Claire Oueslati-Porter Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt . Hanan Hammad . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . 279 pages. isbn 9781477310724. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018...

...Sara Pursley The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt . Lucie Ryzova . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . 304 pages. isbn 9780199681778. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 A welcome...

...Murat C. Yildiz Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt . Nefissa Naguib . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 156 pages. isbn 9781477307106. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 The Egyptian man...

...Mona L. Russell Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870–1930 . Hoda Yousef . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 264 pages. isbn 9780804797115. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018...

...Ferial J. Ghazoul Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur , Hatem Mervat F. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . 234 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-11350-3 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

...Wilson Chacko Jacob For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt , Kholoussy Hanan . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2010 . 188 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-6960-0 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 106  mn  JOURNAL...

...Nadia Guessous Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 , Jacob Wilson Chacko . Durham; London : Duke University Press , 2011 . 440 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4674-6 . Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

... and step on my right and step on my boundary, you’ll regret it. Because I’m prepared. —Fatma Atef, WenDo trainer, 2015 Sexual harassment of women and girls in public places is prevalent and well-documented in Egypt. In a 2008 study of about 1,010 women and 1,010 men in Greater Cairo, 83 percent...

...Evelyne Accad Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892–2008 , Elsadda Hoda . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2012 . 261 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3296-2 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014 126  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s...

...Mariz Tadros Abstract This article examines incidents of politically motivated sexual violence against men in protest spaces at a distinct juncture in Egypt’s history, after the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak (2011–13). The article examines the reified conceptions of masculinities in relation...

...Francesca Grandi “Brothers” or Others? Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt , Fábos Anita H. . New York : Berghahn Books , 2008 . Pp. xii, 188 . ISBN 978-1-84545-018-2 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...

...Frances S. Hasso Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life , Sonneveld Nadia . Cairo; New York : The American University in Cairo Press , 2012 . 229 pages. ISBN: 978-977-416-484-12 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...