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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412078.
Published: 19 September 2024
... guardian and the groom. This practice imposes numerous physical and psychological hardships on the child bride, whose domestic and reproductive labor becomes bound to a man she chose not to marry. By analyzing “Hitaw” (1973), by Ali Ashraf Darvishiyan, and Mādīyān (1986), directed by Ali Zhakan...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and ensuring their upward mobility. AIU spokespeople preferred horror stories about early marriage to addressing the complexity of the custom, in which, for example, actual consummation was often postponed until the brides reached puberty. For the AIU, child marriages were an expression of contempt...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
Published: 01 November 2020
... narratives describing marital practices: bride price, divorce, polygyny, and early marriage. The article confronts the discourse of Ghagar and non-Ghagar about the position of women within Ghagar communities. It hypothesizes that representations of gender specificities among Ghagar communities may...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2011
... attraction and repulsion. Hence, the full, rounded bodies of Tunisian Jewish brides were sites of transformation where these multiple meanings came together in complex and at times contrasting ways. HAGAR SALAMON AND ESTHER JUHASZ mn 1
“GODDESSES OF FLESH AND METAL...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 36–53.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as an
orphanage and other programs. Th rough their work in the orphanage,
the staff at Falah were in close contact with the mothers of orphans (a
fatherless child is defi ned as an orphan), and decided to address their
problems. According to ‘Amer Sultan (2007), fi nancial director...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 152–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., Ibn Qudama described a situation in which an heir is a prepubescent khuntha mushkil and recommended withholding a portion of the inheritance until the child reached puberty. If secondary sexual characteristics manifested, and the khuntha became male or female, the appropriate share could be paid...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... notably, the testimony of French doctors was increasingly used to assess physical traumas endured by young brides claiming “wrongful consummation” of their betrothal and women demanding release from marriages they claimed had never been consummated. I found that the effects of this expertise shift were...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 1–10.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of the civil war; the construc-
tion of the “girl child” as a problem space in modern state-building
projects in Egypt; and the shift ing literary grounds on which progres-
sive Egyptian writers represent the nation and the place of youth in the
national imaginary.
The articles published here...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of the apparently fundamental changes
we are witnessing with regard to family and gender relations?
THE MODERN VIEW OF EARLY MARRIAGE
“Early” or “child” marriage, whereby either or both the bride and
groom (usually the bride) is under the age of eighteen3 remains con-
tentious...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 195–215.
Published: 01 July 2022
... within the same generation. A salient difference, however, is noticeable between the elder and younger siblings in families with more than one child, with considerable variety in the ways of adopting and responding to parents’ cultural practices and norms. To explicate this shift, as a historical...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 87–99.
Published: 01 July 2008
...?
What makes you think so?
What do you think the role of women’s money is?
How much money do you give each child per week?
Who do your children ask for money when they need it?
For what purposes do you save money?
How does your religion infl uence the way you handle...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 93–96.
Published: 01 July 2009
...,
“Not Today others commit suicide (“Wild Child,” by Zalfa Feghali)
or simply go mad (“Th e Story of Warda,” by Iman Humaydan Younes).
However, dealing with gender and sexuality is an obvious concern to
these writers as they confront postwar realities. Whether Christian
or Muslim, these women...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of an unnamed narrator (the youngest child), the novel characterizes life under autocracy through the narrator’s episodic memories. Each character suffers from chronic shame, linked variously to disability, betrayal of friendship, betrayal of faith, and more. At the heart of the novel is the family’s...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412065.
Published: 19 September 2024
... responsibilities in such unions. The wedding is celebrated according to the status of the bride and the groom, who often belong to the same social class. Many Western anthropologists refer to these negotiations as bride price. While in many poorer regions of the MENASA, the negotiations might result in nancial...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., as it is the only mode of escape and the potential threshold of her transformation into a more independent person. “I thought of running away again. . . . I crept through the half-open door. Maybe I would be able to pull back the bolt of the main gate” (2). Even as a child Fatima has distanced herself emotionally...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 307–325.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., domestic laborers, laundresses, matchmakers, spinners, weavers, nannies, midwives, healers, preachers, dancers, singers, public bath attendants, mortuary workers, and prostitutes. Prostitution was widespread; so were temporary and child marriages. Girls as young as nine were sold or given in temporary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... child welfare committee volunteers by the mid-1920s, attending the weekly sahra to learn more about families or neighbors who could use some help. 31 In addition to this informal soup kitchen, the SLAS routinely sent milk, heating coal, and shelf-stable groceries to Syrian homes across New England...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 216–237.
Published: 01 July 2022
... is significant in the sense that Sunni Muslims do not believe in the infallibility or the spiritual importance of imams and are not expected to observe rituals for their martyrdom. 15. The Bride of Quraysh is a ritual play enacting an encounter between Fatima—the daughter of the Prophet—and a bride...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 96–107.
Published: 01 November 2005
... where govern-
ments fail to prevent violence against women including honor killings,
bride-burnings and the non-prosecution of domestic violence” (1994).
From this point, AI began to feature Muslim women’s human rights
violations.1
On March 8, 1995, International Women’s Day...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
Published: 01 November 2006
... political battles, the
repercussions of which they are uncertain. Lenny’s child’s-eye perspec-
tive continually problematizes the emergence of these divisions and the
personal traits resulting from them; are they indeed new or an aspect of
society she had earlier been ignorant of? Th e absurdity...
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