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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 455–459.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Norma Claire Moruzzi Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Fatima Mernissi’s impact on scholarship and writing on Arab and Muslim women has been so profound that it is almost easy to overlook. Eclectic in her interpretations and her methodologies, Mernissi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 80–97.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Ian Campbell Abstract This article extends critical analysis of Fatima Mernissi’s 1995 semiautobiographical Dreams of Trespass to Fatima al-Rawi’s 1967 novel, Tomorrow We’ll Get Our Land Back ( Ghadan tatabadal al- ʾ ard ), which shares with Dreams the trope of Moroccan women imprisoned...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 109–111.
Published: 01 July 2011
... for literature in general and women’s literature in particular. From this discussion of the sociological and political context of literary production, Diaconoff moves to the works of specific authors, including Fatima Mernissi, Rajae Benchemsi, Sihim Benchekroun, Leila Abouzeid, and Nedjma (a pseudonym...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 301–302.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to the life and works of the pioneering Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi, who died on November 30, 2015. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 216–218.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and children, since they cannot control anything else. Patriarchy and misogyny thus allow the regime to maintain its power and uphold the status quo. Glacier builds on and expands Fatima Mernissi’s unflinching critique of the Moroccan state, religion, and patriarchy. For instance, she asserts...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2016
... claim that in her interviews “Islam as a cultural heritage plays a more significant role . . . than Islam as a dogma” (13), she skirts a conversation that Moroccan feminist writers, such as Fatima Mernissi, have nuanced in their attempts to reconcile religious belief with emancipatory fashion...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 119–121.
Published: 01 November 2011
...: In the first instance, she conducts, following Fatima Mernissi, “an archaeology” (5) of zina that shows, pace contemporary Islamist claims, that Islam has always been open to change. In the second instance, she examines the records of Aleppo’s Ottoman courts in order to demonstrate the local nature...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 106–109.
Published: 01 July 2011
... for literature in general and women’s literature in particular. From this discussion of the sociological and political context of literary production, Diaconoff moves to the works of specific authors, including Fatima Mernissi, Rajae Benchemsi, Sihim Benchekroun, Leila Abouzeid, and Nedjma (a pseudonym...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 6–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
... Arab Muslim culture. Nissa’s content focused primarily on women’s affairs at the local level and the regional level of the Maghreb and the Mashreq, although it did provide some coverage of women in Africa and other parts of the world. The works of feminists like the Moroccan Fatima Mernissi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2011
... argument to debunk “the myth of the silent woman” is rather outdated, given the significant amount of scholarship that has already taken up the works of writers such as Fatima Mernissi to consider the question of women and decoloniza- tion in postcolonial Morocco. A more thorough consideration...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575548.
Published: 10 January 2025
... Arabs,Western men are captivated by what the Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi (1995) has described as the harem dream. In this dream, which ignores the harem as a space in which they also vie for power, educated women are represented as submissive prisoners. The serail, Mernissi says...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 485–491.
Published: 01 November 2021
...’ Introduction .” In Talk of Darkness , by Fatna El Bouih, ix–xv. Austin : University of Texas Press . Kingdom of Morocco, Justice and Reconciliation Commission . 2006 . Summary of the Final Report. www.cndh.ma/sites/default/files/documents/rapport_final_mar_eng-3.pdf . Mernissi Fatima . 1984...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 July 2008
... of “ideological dexterity” in the Palestinian women’s movement. Since its emergence more than three decades ago through the pio- neering works of Fatima Mernissi, Nikki Keddie, and Nawal El Saadawi, the study of gender in MENA and Muslim societies has made enormous contributions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 330–343.
Published: 01 November 2019
... historically manipulated by European women into a false binary, presented as either sexually liberating or grossly oppressive. Fatima Mernissi’s ( 1994 ) Dreams of Trespass is a compelling counterpoint to Bertrana’s reductive descriptions of these spaces. Born in a Fez harem in 1940, Mernissi writes a memoir...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 6–28.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the socialist state was encouraging all citizens into the national workforce, Bint al-Shati’ wrote a series of books on the lives of “women of the Prophet” pre- sented as paragons of virtue and active involvement in the community. A few decades later, Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Fatima Sadiqi; Moha Ennaji The Moroccan feminist movement has greatly feminized and democratized the public sphere in this country. An example of such a feminization is the recent 2004 Family Law reforms, which constitute the culmination of a long trajectory during which decisionmakers, political...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
Published: 01 July 2006
... whose ap- peal is not restricted to their physical traits. Amin Hussein argues that satellite technology “has the potential to empower Arab women in the exercise of their right to seek and receive information and ideas” (2001). For Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi, this vision has mate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 November 2005
... MARIA EL CHEIK  5 makes the distinction between “real” harems and the harem of European literature, which “is nothing but fantasm, a purely fi ctional construction onto which Europe’s own sexual repressions, erotic fantasies and desire of domination were projected” (1989). Fatima Mernissi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2019
... that discuss the figure of Scheherazade in the context of modern Arab women’s writings are those by Lila Abu Lughod, Leila Ahmed, Margot Badran, Beth Baron, Assia Djebar, Suzanne Gauche, Nawar al-Hassan Golley, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Layla Maleh, Fatima Mernissi, Somaya Sami Sabry...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
... intellectual debates in the press actually had tangible results. In her autobiographical Dreams of Trespass , Fatima Mernissi ( 1994 : 35) recalls how the nationalists in postwar Fez viewed female education as central to their project of building a “new Morocco.” They looked down on those still practicing...
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