...Hande Eslen-Ziya; Nazlı Kazanoğlu Abstract This article attempts to show how government-supported women’s NGOs (GO-NGOs) in Turkey actively contribute to the construction of neoliberal, conservative, antigender discourses of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. Since the second...

... dependency on foreign powers” (Sakr 2004, 172). For more on “NGOs, INGOs, GO-NGOs and DO-NGOs,” see Carapico 2000. 7. See critiques of the AHDR 2005 by Abu-Lughod 2009b, Adely 2009, and Hasso 2009. 8. Similarly, the annual report on the European Neighbourhood Policy by the Commission...

... in charge of the care economy rather than pushing for policy or investing in structures that help empower women (Ayhan 2019 ; Çavdar and Yaşar 2019 ; Kandiyoti 2016 ; Koyuncu and Özman 2019 ; Özcan 2019 ; Ün 2019 ; Yabanci 2016 ). Declaring KADEM as a governmental-nongovernmental organization (GO-NGO...

... activities, explicitly going beyond the problematic tendency to look first and fore- most to the NGO as the location of women’s activism in a development- driven world. My interest in youth arises from the notes and footnotes of scholars and activists which reveal provocative anxieties...

...- tute. The facilitator holds sessions with the students so that when they complete their training and go on to work in salons—where they have contact and long conversations with numbers of women every day—they serve as the community women’s legal rights resources. Local NGOs...

..., English proficiency and upper-class cosmo- politanism often go together. In Israel, the du-kiyyum is habitually per- formed in Hebrew, the colonizers’ language. Subaltern Palestinians speak SMADAR LAVIE mn  63 it fluently. The Israeli participants...

... government was going to be perceived internationally. Here, the rights of Jordanian women were treated as an extension of the international interests of the Kingdom and the need to shield it against criticism. Finally, the recent extension of voting rights to women in some Gulf States did...

... their travel documents back, putting them at risk of further violations and possible interrogation. In addition, female activists are commonly subjected to verbal sexual harassments by customs officers. Such practices are terrifying. To avoid going through such a painful experience, defenders are often...

..., they don’t know they have problems. We must go and enter their homes and explain to them what their problems are.” He continued to discuss how he and his team of NGO workers eventually managed to sway some parents into allowing their daughters to participate, but this occurred not without...

... someone, ‘I’m pregnant,’ and they say, ‘Go get rid of it.’ But for her, ‘I don’t want to get rid of it.’” This self-abnegating focus on protecting their children ran counter to the self-interested, rational calculation embedded within neoliberal logic. Instead, single-mother associations sought to foster...

.... The Moroccan Arabic expression for women working outside the home is kharjat khdam (she went out to work) (cf. Belarbi 1997). “Going out” means “going” from one space to another, while the verb kharjat (she went out) marks the “going out” as a movement from the private/interior to the public/exterior...

...) in the 1990s, before going up to 39 percent (252) in the 2000s. Rather, the 1990s are marked by Mrs. Mubarak assuming “policy first lady” roles, measured by scholars such as Robert P. Watson ( 2014 ) in other cases of first ladies by how far the presidential wife is “identified with a policy issue...

... groups can work together within diverse frameworks but with a higher threshold of demands. We need to better appreciate all our work as feminists in Lebanon and in the region. While our region is going through crises, the feminist movement is not. Instead, we are reshaping feminist discourse through...

... patterns beyond the Tel Aviv area, it seems likely that most consult private doctors for high fees, visit emergency rooms in dire cases, or simply go without medical care. DEPORTATIONS AND DELIVERIES: THE REPRODUCTIVE PARADOX The areas...

... through the major social, cultural, and political institutions of Israeli Palestinians. I will exemplify this briefly with the institution of the family. With some important distinctions among Mus- lims, Christians, Druzes, and Bedouins, and between urban and rural communities that I cannot go...

... on these findings, the author broaches issues such as the necessity to problematize the “secular” and go beyond the binary secular-religious as sources for women’s rights. She questions the meanings of secular and elite . Strikingly, Evrard’s book relocates the secular not only as part of women’s lives but also...

..., and Tahrir Bodyguard. All interviews were conducted in English. HarassMap was launched in October 2010 by going live with an online crowdmapping system, Ushahidi, a GIS-based technology that asks users to anonymously describe their sexual harassment experience and pinpoint the location of the incident...

..., June 2021. 28. Interview with Bothaina Hamdan, June 2021. 27. Israeli law does not allow Palestinians to go to the sea or to visit their villages in historical Palestine. 26. Interview with Hamdan, April 2021. 25. Interview with Hamdan, April 2021. 24. Due...

... 2002) shows variations in MENA women’s access to microcredit. In many countries, women need permission from their hus- bands to take out a loan or go to a meeting. Thus, although Egypt has the largest numbers of microfinance and unemployment lending programs, the vast majority of the clients are men...

... of Muslim women to marry outside their religious tradition, citizenship laws go further in most states by limiting women citizens’ ability to ac- quire state recognition of a religious marriage with any non-citizen man. Changing Family Legal Systems in the United Arab...