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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Banat al-Riyadh into English as a case study, I argue that revisions made by press and author to my translation assimilated it to chick-lit generic conventions in the anglophone marketplace, muting the gender politics and situatedness of multiple kinds of Arabic that acted, in the original novel...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Maryam Rutner Abstract This article sheds light on the most influential woman religious scholar in twentieth-century Iran, Nusrat Amin (1886–1983). Contemporaneous prominent men religious scholars recognized Amin’s religious authority and expertise in Islamic sciences despite her gender. Amin’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 68–74.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... At a May 2017 workshop held in Berlin with both authors, al-Daif remarked how he had been thrilled about his exchange with Helfer because he considers European intellectuals his “natural allies against retrograde forces back home,” a position that undermines the East-West premise at the core of Helfer’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2025) 21 (1): 48–67.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of female authority, which complicate our understanding of his views on masculinity and femininity, piety, and physical and spiritual health. The moments when Ibn al-Ḥājj considers women in positions of power reveal the variety of techniques he employs to enforce a proper gender hierarchy in which men have...
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Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 1. Fashionable jilbab s in different shops in Amman. Author’s personal collection. More
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Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 2. Fashionable ʿabaya s in different shops in Amman. Author’s personal collection. More
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Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 3. Fashionable veiling over Western-style clothes. Author’s personal collection. More
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Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 5. A veiling style that exposes the neck, displayed in a shop window in Amman. Author’s personal collection. More
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 4. Capping ceremony at the mission hospital in Tabriz. Used with permission of Katharine Lamme. In possession of author. More
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Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 4. Fashionable headscarves in different patterns and wrapping styles in shop windows in Amman. Author’s personal collection. More
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2008
... assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) using donor gametes and embryos have been legitimized by religious authorities and passed into law. This has placed Iran, a Shia-dominant country, in a unique position vis-à-vis the Sunni Islamic world, where all forms of gamete donation are strictly prohibited...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
... masters. Nevertheless, one can rarely associate a female master with an extant piece of calligraphy. This article provides an introduction to the person and work of Hilal Kazan, a Turkish female master calligrapher who holds traditional authorizations to practice. Such authorizations accord a prestige...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 90–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Stephanie Willman Bordat; Susan Schaefer Davis; Saida Kouzzi Numerous recent initiatives in Morocco aim to promote women’s empowerment in the country’s current climate of legal reform, national and international development, and rising Islamism. The authors employ a holistic definition...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Munira Khayyat; Yasmine Khayyat; Rola Khayyat Abstract This article uses a multigenerational lens to address the tangible and intangible embodiments of the US-Saudi oil empire in the lives of the three sister authors. This multisited intimate geography of empire challenges national categories...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 November 2016
...’ mothers in Israeli public life changed since the 1982 Lebanon War? At the center of the discussion is David Grossman’s novel To the End of the Land (2008). I argue that the author posits “the flight from bad tidings” as both a maternal strategy and the author’s psychopoetic strategy. This article examines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 4–31.
Published: 01 July 2013
... and the symbolic value of the pen in Musa’s memoirs in order to understand how literate women in Musa’s day were read and how they wrote to establish themselves as subjects authorized to participate in intellectual life. Confrontations with the pen reverberate throughout the memoirs, demonstrating that writing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 124–143.
Published: 01 July 2020
... , the authors meticulously employ colloquial sexist diction to expose the connection between sexism and violence against women. The portrayal of such violence relies on language that illustrates the authors’ concerns and their commentary on the status of women. In this situation, literary criticism...
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Published: 01 July 2021
Figure 1. Awwal (leader), tanni (second), and other dabke participants in a shakl daʿira at a wedding, October 8, 2008. Jable, Syria. Photograph by author. More
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
Published: 01 July 2014
... states, reconstitute state authority over intimate domains, and limit possibilities for gendered, sexual, and kin subjectivities and affinities. This dynamic may be metaphorically described as a “devil’s bargain” since state-delivered rights and protections in these realms are so often attached...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a messianic femininity that emphasizes maternal duties and women’s redemptive power in Judaism while challenging male religious authorities and religious law in other areas. Activists define themselves as guardians of domestic space and the House of God (the future Third Temple) and redeemers of the Jewish...
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