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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 March 2023
... subjectivities embracing the hegemonic terms of governmentality, and resistant Muslim feminist activists. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 feminist protest Muslim feminists authoritarianism critical pious agency Turkey...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Mustafa Menshawy Abstract Research on the powers or roles of first ladies in authoritarian Arab states suffers from two gaps. First, there are always attempts to homogenize women under which the president’s spouse is simply subsumed within categories such as “Arab women,” “Muslim women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 40–61.
Published: 01 November 2014
... by great numbers of women, seek new language, modes of organizing, and formations. Presenting the new insurrections as not only anti-statism, anti-authoritarian, and non-hierarchal, but also fragmentary, uncertain, incomplete, and ongoing, I ground my ideas with examples from the various insurrections...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2013
... disadvantaged by neoliberalism and a demographic youth bulge. They were economically excluded by high unemployment and insecure jobs in the informal sector; they were politically excluded by authoritarianism and state repression; and they were socially excluded by the limbo of “waithood,” or prolonged...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Shayna Silverstein Abstract This essay analyzes how dance, gender, and state power function together as a significant node of critique in recent cultural production that addresses authoritarianism in Syria. Identifying the symbolic trope of dabke , a popular dance ubiquitous in Syrian life...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2017
... harmony between and within communities. Our article highlights the need to widen conceptualizations of conflict to view it not as an isolated event but as a site where masculinist militarism, patriarchy, and authoritarianism converge. Turkish and Kurdish feminist peace activists stress...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 241–243.
Published: 01 July 2023
... success in popular democratic elections, the party began to use these institutions in its favor after the 2016 coup attempt to strengthen the authoritarian regime. The third part of the book presents an intricate picture of Turkey’s constitution-making processes. Gözde Böcü and Felix Petersen argue...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2010
... criteria for civil society: participation,
civility, and empowerment. By opening the possibility of civil society
within authoritarianism, and by challenging ideas that Islamic organi-
zations are at their core antithetical to civility, Krause is able to ask the
framing question of her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 486–488.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of chaos leading to authoritarian governance. “Islam hates us,” President Trump declared on the campaign circuit—as if Islam were a person, one person, and could act in a uniform manner. It is not an accident that hate crimes against Muslims and Arab Americans and against those who may look like Muslims...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 189–193.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the will of women who stand for the elected government at the vigils with the will of women who stand for peace and against any kind of authoritarian military regime. Given the heightened nationalism and militarism in the context of ongoing wars in the region and the government’s increasing intolerance toward...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2024
... – 41 . Arat Yeşim , and Pamuk Şevket . 2019 . Turkey between Democracy and Authoritarianism . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Biner Zerrin . 2019 . “ Precarious Solidarities: Poisonous Knowledge and the Academics for Peace in Times of Authoritarianism .” Social...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 193–201.
Published: 01 July 2020
... heightened violence, fragmentation, authoritarian political repression, and Islamist mobilization, lessons and analytic frames developed in the Palestinian context may carry increasingly relevant comparative utility. The challenges, contradictions, tensions, failures, and avenues for future openings...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 152–155.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... The authoritarian patriarchal state co-opted
feminism, wresting from women control of their three decades’ old or-
ganized independent feminist activism.
State mobilization of women, building upon earlier efforts of in-
dependent feminists, extended work for women. It made a distinctive...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 347–349.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the United States. From a feminist lens that is trained for questioning given narratives, Trump’s seemingly chaotic governance style appears as a systematic tactic of governance that instrumentalizes chaos, much like many of the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East (Joseph). The careful analyses...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 137–139.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., divorce, and gender relations in
an authoritarian context, although they are empirically wrong in rep-
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of authoritarian atmosphere in Syria in literary texts, which produces politically castrated masculinities. John Tofik Karam’s chapter flips the critical gaze to analyze how MENA masculinities are viewed from North and South America. There he finds a reproduction of macho Arab masculinities, which opens up new...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 343–345.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and practices as unchanging. In a parallel way the lexicon of neoliberalism works as a shorthand to say everything and nothing at once. Amar uses what he calls the “heuristic device” of the human-security state (41) to trouble the staid authoritarian and the ever-illusive neoliberal. The human-security...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Turkey’s authoritarian turn (cf. Özbudun 2015 ; Tuğal 2016 ), characterized by the suspension of human rights, desecularization, and increased authoritarian control. Gender politics during this period has been “ intrinsic rather than incidental ” to the ruling ideology (Kandiyoti 2016 : 105...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575522.
Published: 10 January 2025
... regarding authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), particularly since the Arab uprisings. Adak s book signi cantly contributes to this genre by uncovering the historical context of this reciprocity. The book also makes a signi cant contribution to the feminist historiography of MENA...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 100–103.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., authoritarian features of the regime. Among
Islamic actors, there was a growing conviction that the system-challeng-
ing tactics of the pro-Islamic Refah Party were leading to a narrowing of
opportunities for Islamic social actors to participate in the public sphere.
Supporters of normalizing...
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