...Sarah G. Moment Atis Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem , Lewis Reina . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2004 , 297 pp. $29.95 paper. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 116  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S...

...Miriam Cooke Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature . Samara Anne Cahill . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press , 2019 . 232 pages. isbn 9781684480975. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021...

... to a hard-power colonial state apparatus, they retained considerable situational power over their patients. arizou@nus.edu.sg Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Chinese female ob-gyns medical mission Algeria Morocco Orientalism Unfolding...

...Kifah Hanna The Homoerotics of Orientalism . Joseph A. Boone . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . 486 pages. isbn 9780231151115. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 In The Homoerotics of Orientalism Joseph A. Boone sets...

.... In this article I use a comparison to demonstrate that a putatively Western group is engaging in retraditionalization, and then explore links between Orientalism and that retraditionalization. The data are life stories of bourgeois-origin Jewish women who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s from Poland and Iraq...

... of strategies. The goal is to increase the number of women who walk confidently on the streets and react effectively and assertively to stop sexual harassment. Salem emphasizes that WenDo Egypt allows her to “see an effect right after” a training instead of waiting years for change. 17 Action-oriented...

...Kathryn Medien The final two chapters examine Foucault’s trips to Japan, described by Lazreg as standing out “in his perception of cultural otherness” (192). Together, these chapters document Foucault’s difficulties in comprehending Japanese culture and his encounter with an Oriental “limit...

... despite its differences from the previous discursive constitutions of Muslim women in US media. ozum.yesiltas@tamuc.edu Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Rojava gender Kurdistan Orientalism Although the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014...

... and caesarean birth. The critical discourse and frame analysis, based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 through 2014, reveal a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and in a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. The article...

... may not be up to the task. The focus of the paper is on “white Turk” identity and ideology which have emerged in Turkey since the 1980s and have significantly influenced political and intellectual orientations among intellectuals, including liberal feminists. It is argued that this influence...

... and interdisciplinary thrusts and implications. In both instances they have oriented themselves toward traveling across traditional academic disciplines to create transnational communities and cross-cultural communication. Given these general affinities, this article uses theoretical tools from the field of translation...

...Smadar Lavie This paper analyzes the failure of Israel’s Ashkenazi (Jewish, of European, Yiddish-speaking origin) feminist peace movement to work within the context of Middle East demographics, cultures, and histories and, alternately, the inabilities of the Mizrahi (Oriental) feminist movement...

...Hina Azam The American Muslim landscape is suffused with mosque bookstores, independent book distributors, online retailers, and convention stalls offering English-speaking Muslims Islamic advice texts on a wide array of topics. Common among these popularly oriented writings are titles pertaining...

... woman was intended to define how the good woman should behave as well as the terrible fate in store for those who dared to flout the limits. This evil woman was embodied in the character of the Oriental dancer who was to be seen, from that time on, as a fallen woman. This article aims to discuss...

... women in interior spaces and poses made familiar to an international audience by nineteenth-century European paintings. However, Essaydi trades Orientalism’s apparent realism and colorful decors for a monochromatic gold color scheme that originates from thousands of bullet casings she has meticulously...

... of 1,339 articles found this progression to be linear ; that is, Suzanne Mubarak moved from traditional ceremonial roles in the 1980s to policy-oriented ones in the 1990s to political roles, even acting as “copresident” in the 2000s. Through interviews, the data-based findings are contextualized within...

.... Pp. xii, 213. ISBN 0-739-10962-6. Reviewed by Schirin Amir-Moazami, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) Deconstructions of constructions of the Orient, of Islam, and, more recently, of gendered Islam have been prevalent in various disciplines...

... HAREMS Nadia Maria El Cheikh  he harem has not been properly historicized. It has suffered from the time- Tlessness of the Orient that Edward Said discussed in Orientalism, that is the Orient as a zone of time locked out in a premodern past...

... and racial hierarchies in Brazilian nationalist ideology. hen and by whom was the dança do ventre [belly dance] first “Wpublicly performed in Brazil?” asked the country’s popular bel- ly dance newsletter, Oriente, Encanto e Magia (Orient, Enchantment and Magic...

.... Her work exists in a perpetual state of surrealism and phantasmagoria, almost like a daydream come to life. Khalifa’s collages use antique photographs layered under digital graphics to combine kitsch, Orientalism, fantasy, and history into a seamless investigation of the absurdity of daily life...