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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 256–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... ). Rather than take up questions of agency, as Saba Mahmood’s seminal work Politics of Piety did, Sylvia Chan-Malik’s Being Muslim charts an “insurgent genealogy” of Islamic commitments in the face of colonial racisms, as protest or liberation theology. In so doing, her work moves beyond questions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Alyson E. Jones Umm Kulthūm: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007 , Lohman Laura . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press , 2010 . 229 pages. ISBN 978-0-8195-7071-0 . Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2012 110 mn Journal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 88–92.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of agency in a region where law and politics are imbricated (Charrad 2001 ). Intervening in law to improve it is generally referred to as ijtihad . Classical Muslim Sunni jurists, such as Abu Husayn al-Basri, Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali, and Sayf al-Din al-Amidi, transposed this meaning...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Nahda Shehada Based on 14 months of fieldwork, this paper examines the influence of social norms, individual agency, and historical contingency on the practice of House of Obedience ( bayt al-ta‘a ) in the shari‘a courts of the Gaza Strip. It argues that the text of Islamic family law is only one...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of the entertainment trade as a “history-in-miniature of Egypt more generally” (5). The author summarizes and takes as her base the redefinition and exploration (arguably, subversion) of the notion of “agency” as offered by Saba Mahmood ( 2005 ) and Sherine Hafez ( 2011 ) in their studies on women’s piety...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 258–260.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Sarah Irving Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity, and Family during the Second Intifada . Muhanna Aitemad . Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . 222 pages. isbn 9781409454533 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 As Nicola Pratt...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 81–107.
Published: 01 November 2013
... experience agency in acts of submission rather than in resistance and that the association of agency with emancipatory desire and action is an expression of a patently Western tradition that celebrates the fiction of the autonomous individual. I find that women activists’ interpretations of agency in piety...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2012
... between their memories, narratives, and agency, on one hand, and the hegemonic discourse on victimhood in Kurdistan-Iraq today, on the other, as well as the interweaving of their individual coping strategies and the institutional processes for dealing with the past in Kurdistan and Iraq. Thus the paper...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 153–172.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Golnesa Rezanezhad Pishkhani Abstract This article explores women’s agency in the production of handwoven rugs in both rural and urban areas of contemporary northern Iran. It examines research data through an intersectional lens to understand how various factors render subjects able or unable...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Identities: Criticizing Patriarchy in Turkey , edited by Özmen Ahu and Dönmez Rasim , 113 – 47 . Lanham, MD : Lexington . Aksoy Hurcan Asli . 2015 . “ Invigorating Democracy in Turkey: The Agency of Organized Islamist Women .” Politics and Gender 11 , no. 1 : 146 – 70...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2019
... notes how she tends to an analysis of the agency of these immigrants, there is little reference by Lalami to their religious identifiers. This is not an omission but a literary strategy suggesting that religious liaisons form venues of challenge and agency in Islamist revivals. Since faith practices...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Suad Joseph Thus far, scholarship on subjectivity, relevant to Arab men as well as women, skirts the key issue of “intentionality.” Feminist scholars often conflate agency and intentionality. Agency, as it is approached, is attached to the subject in the aftermath of observing actions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in their storytelling art in Turkey, this article questions the equation between “raising one’s voice” and having agency. It investigates two concrete instances in 2012, in Istanbul and Van, where Kurdish women publicly raised their voices. It shows that public audibility does not necessarily translate into agency...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 124–143.
Published: 01 July 2020
... can minimize important culturally bound elements of Daneshvar’s and Parsipur’s feminist awareness and agency, it provides an example with relevance for critical translation studies. Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 feminism language translation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to be studied. The articles examine microlevel contact zones, in which women’s agency shaped and was shaped by colonial and postcolonial encounters, decolonization, and the formation of national professions. They reveal tensions within the medical sphere, between men and women, foreign and local, colonizer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 195–215.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of identification, and religious discourse has been circulating within Islamic institutions post-1980s. Based on this transformation, the study draws on the strategic use of religious sentiments and Islamic discourse and argues that women’s prioritization of Islamic identity has increased their agency in spouse...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 216–237.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Afsane Rezaei Abstract This article explores domestic religious practices of Iranian Muslim women in Los Angeles. In the diasporic context, Iranian women’s voluntary engagement in vernacular Islamic practices is often associated with an unreflexive pursuit of religion and lack of agency...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the metaphor of the Internet as a digital closet as it relates to collegiate lesbian and gay activism. The conclusion reflects on the significance and functions of this media metaphor for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual agency and subjectivities in Turkey, suggesting similar venues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 45–74.
Published: 01 November 2007
... to place their agency in finer perspective, through elaborating the structural setting within which it is made possible. Amalia Sa‘ar (Ph.D., Boston University) is a cultural anthropologist. Her ongoing research concerns Israeli Palestinians, with a focus on gender politics and urban conditions. Her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in the local context is to elaborate, develop, and disseminate translations of gender that enable agency. The article also explores some of the sites of resistance to the field in Egypt and in the Arab world, including various Islamist discourses. Samia Mehrez is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature...
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