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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 157–162.
Published: 01 July 2005
... Like Us (Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri)
2003, 60 minutes
Reviewed by Shahla Haeri, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
With lifting up the social restrictions in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq war,
and beginning in the early 1990s, Iranian cinema found a new...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2022
... masculinities are viewed from North and South America. There he finds a reproduction of macho Arab masculinities, which opens up new questions on neo-Orientalisms. Chapters on cinema take the discussion to a new ground. Kaveh Bassiri focuses on Iranian cinema and discusses the transformation of hegemonic...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412039.
Published: 19 September 2024
...Alexander Jabbari Abstract This article attempts to think race, sexuality, and temporality together in modern Iran. By analyzing modern Iranian literature, cinema, and media, it argues that the figure of the Indian evokes difference embodied in physiognomy, language, and sexuality in the Iranian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 227–234.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Allegories: Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema (2008) and #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life (2015), as well as of Whisper Tapes , and her work on the global culture of memes and selfies has been featured at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, New York’s Museum...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412052.
Published: 19 September 2024
... (1996: 210) examines the presence of the Madonna/whore complex in both American cinema and seventeenth-century love poetry. In the context of Iran, Hamid Na cy (1991) explores the dichotomous representation of women in Iranian cinema, Homa Katouzian (2007) discusses the Madonna/whore complex in relation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
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such as Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Tahmineh Milani, Manijeh Hekmat,
Samira Makhmalbaf, and others became internationally known and
ranked among the most successful directors in Iran.5 Soon women and
their lives became one of the most attractive subjects in Iranian cinema,
for both male and female fi...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412078.
Published: 19 September 2024
... of young girls in Iran. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 child marriage Persian literature Iranian cinema child brides Child Marriage in Hitaw and M d¯ y n MARYAM ZEHTABI A B S T R A C T Child marriage, the union between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 235–243.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Social Text, and Theory and Event. Contact: [email protected]. NEGAR MOTTAHEDEH is professor of literature and a scholar of media studies and Iranian studies at Duke University. She is author of Displaced Allegories: Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema (2008...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Naficy Hamid . 2012 . The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010 . Vol. 4 of A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Najmabadi Afsaneh . 2008 . “ (Un...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 83–85.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Heather Rastovac-Akbarzadeh Gender and Dance in Modern Iran is an exceptionally well-researched contribution to the limited scholarship on Iranian dance. Meftahi draws from an extensive archive of primary sources, many of which are only available in Persian: periodicals, program notes, films...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412026.
Published: 19 September 2024
... indecent but also audaciously brave, from my youthful perspective. However, the Iran of my childhood has changed signi cantly in the past three decades. The world has witnessed in awe the displays of resilience and bravery of Iranians, especially women, through movements like the Mahsa Amini uprising...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 209–212.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Postrevolutionary Cinema .” Public Culture 3 , no. 2 : 29 – 40 . Robert Klein Gallery . n.d. “ Samira Alikhanzadeh (Iranian, b. 1967) .” www.robertkleingallery.com/samira-alikhanzadeh (accessed February 7 , 2020 ). Sepehri Sohrab . 1970 . The Mirror of the World . melliun.org/iran...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Kaveh Bassiri Overall, these festival films convey how Iranian daughters, wives, and lovers are contentious sites for the society’s discourse on modernity. Only by accepting the newly empowered woman can Iran embrace twenty-first-century configurations of family and society. The film noir...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... a framework for rereading the graphic novel that highlights intersectional aspects of identities that appeared in the text. Through this lens this article looks at how Satrapi ties her personal story to the story of other Iranian women and at the nuances of the identities she represents to her Western readers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
Published: 01 July 2006
... is also the director of a women’s studies center and an active
defender of women’s rights. Her work as a publisher and women’s rights
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advocate disturbs Iranian conservatives and local authorities,4 but Lahiji
estimates over 400...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Cyrus Schayegh This article analyzes one of the first book-length Iranian treatises on female criminality, Qadisih Hijāzi’s Barrisi-yi jarā’im-i zan dar Irān (1962), to show how in the eyes of contemporary Iranian cultural critics and social scientists, female criminality was prefigured by gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
... be-
tween the symbolism of the veil and its function, I have previously dem-
onstrated the ways in which the transference of the veil through costume
substitution and the use of the shaved head in Iranian cinema serve as a
means of evading the material veil on-screen while simultaneously main-
taining...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
... by contesting official historical-masculinist narratives of their time. Missing Soluch offers readers a working-class feminist politics on the eve of revolutionary upheaval. My Share constructs a feminist politics critical of the postrevolutionary nation’s betrayal of Iranian women’s liberation despite women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 64–95.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Arielle Gordon Abstract Scholars have long accounted for representations of women in the Iranian Revolution by categorically classifying them as “devout mothers” or “heroic sisters,” embodied respectively in the Shiʾi archetypes of Fatima and Zainab. However, a closer look at images of militant...
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
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are numerous, ranging from Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Iranian
academic Azar Nafisi to Malika Oufkir’s Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in
a Desert Jail (1999), to Asra Q. Nomani’s Standing Alone in Mecca: An
American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam (2005), published by
Random House, Talk...
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