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...Ellen Gruenbaum Sondra Hale’s self-imposed thirty years of silence on female circumcision—broken in 1994 for her Ufahamu article and discussed in her chapter for Obioma Nnaemeka’s Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge (Praeger, 2005)—was grounded in her critique of the “residuals...

... in which people do not seek conformity with prevailing norms without openly challenging them, and the scholarly limitations to providing complete accounts of experiences of sexuality. Based on these foundations, the volume includes eleven chapters divided into three parts: the first focuses on premodern...

... scholarly appeal for its multidisciplinary approach, and it will be of particular interest to historians and anthropologists for the questions it poses about the production of subaltern histories. The first five chapters address the cultural production of the Gulf in pre-modern, pre...

..., revolutionary subjectivities that challenge patriarchal constructions of Arab nationalism, particularly in Syria and Lebanon. The first and second chapters develop Al-Sammam’s theoretical and methodological frameworks for selecting the texts and elaborate the keywords diaspora and trauma . Al-Samman...

..., it largely disregards the last two decades of Ottoman historiography that approached the Tanzimat from a bottom-up and critical lens. The book is organized into four chapters. In the rst chapter Suciyan maps out the transformation of the Armenian Administration, meaning the Constantinople Armenian...

..., Suleiman’s work opens the volume and gives an overview of the history of Arab American women from the 1890s through World War II. Based on extensive research into the writings by and about Arab American women in the early Arab American press, Suleiman’s chapter provides a framework for the rest of the volume...

... of burden. We Have No Microbes Here includes a Preface by the series edi- tors and nine chapters. Th e Preface connects the work to others in the series of Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology. Chapter 1, “Approaches,” places the author and this work in the fi eld of medical anthropology...

... and choices made in national settings. book reviews  mn  143 The book is divided into three main parts. The first includes three chapters addressing Islamic legal thought and ARTs, analyzing, as the editors put it, “How reproduction has been understood...

... not disappear. Yaghoobi’s argument that women pay the ultimate price for transgressing their patriarchally defined roles again holds true, for in this film the sigheh woman dies in a car crash, to the relief of her temporary husband. Chapter 8’s premise is similar to that of the previous chapter...

... of the empire amid the Great War, a time when the empire faced significant challenges and transformations, Oğuz’s book brings into bold relief neglected episodes of Ottoman history. Based on her PhD dissertation, Oğuz’s book is divided into five chapters and a well-organized introduction. Chapter 2 explores...

... treatment of female figures, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. In an introductory chapter, five chapters devoted to different sorts of women in the collective biographies—a “unique literary genre” (1) that compiles and organizes entries on individuals—and a brief thematic conclusion, Roded...

... of female agency and an impressive precedent for recognizing bilateral descent in Sunni and Shiʿi societies. Alongside the introduction and the epilogue, the volume is organized into three main parts, each comprising two chapters. Gabbay’s study first examines the Sunni and Shiʿi texts belonging...

... reforms catered to the social aspirations of the already modernizing middle classes” (177). The book is organized thematically and divided into four parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, explores the relationship between photography, gender, and modernity by studying the role of photographs...

.... The text thus also contributes significantly to scholarship on the contemporary Arabic novel by treating works that remain largely unfamiliar in the West. The book consists of an Introduction, four chapters, and an After- 118  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  7:2 word...

... literary tradition, especially with a focus on female agency and readership, and the role of male authors in narrating female voices. The last two chapters, which are most interesting as an investigation of Mihrî Hatun’s poetic strategies, concentrate on two instances in which she engaged in dialogue...

..., and Islam. In the preface Sadeghi provides not only a clear introduction to the book’s scope and argument but a useful skimming guide for readers interested in different aspects of his research. In chapter 1 Sadeghi builds his general model of legal reasoning and decision making, which can be applied...

... the colonizer and colonized, between classes, and over the national body politic. The book comprises an introduction, five empirical chapters, and a conclusion. Kozma first situates the focus of her analysis—the discourses, practices, and conflicts surrounding the state regulation of prostitution—in terms...

... methods, also draws on political science and history. While the book unfolds chronologically, one is tempted to reverse the order of the chapters, as this would illuminate the root causes of the civil protests in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square and many other squares around Iraq since 2011, unrest that picked...

... of Middle East women’s studies  8:2 that coincided with its further gendering as displaced, mostly female, Shi‘a villagers replaced a declining Maronite workforce. Chapter 5 lays bare the state’s own gender bias regarding women’s “suitability for mechanized labor” (117...

... corporeal norms. The production of the national dancer, Meftahi argues, has necessarily involved othering performers and genres deemed antithetical to the dominant ideologies of particular historical junctures. Chapter 1 introduces the key movement traditions of Iran and surveys the performance forms...