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In the Shadow of the State: Changing Definitions of Arab Women’s “Developmental” Citizenship Rights
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 20–45.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Mervat F. Hatem 20 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE:
Changing Defi nitions of Arab Women’s
“Developmental” Citizenship Rights
Mervat F. Hatem
he...
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Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging by Carol Fadda-Conrey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Leila Ben-Nasr Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging Fadda-Conrey Carol New York : New York University Press , 2014 . 243 pages. isbn 9781479804313 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
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Gender and Citizenship Center Stage: Sondra Hale’s Legacy and Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 82–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Sherine Hafez Sondra Hale’s deep and long-term relationship with Sudan has produced a substantial body of scholarship that has transformed the anthropology of gender in the Middle East. She argues in her work that a version of Islamic citizenship was articulated by Hassan al-Turabi’s Islamist...
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Religious Conversion and Daʿwa Secularism: Two Practices of Citizenship in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 254–255.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of secularism and religion, and interdisciplinary studies of the state and sexual/gendered citizenship. I focus on two phenomena. One is the Lebanese state’s regulation of religious conversion, a practice the state and its courts consider proof of their secularity. The state actively protects the rights...
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Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 66–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Sara Salem Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment . Amalia Saʾar . Oxford : Berghahn , 2016 . 262 pages. isbn 9781785331794 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes...
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Masculinity and Marginality: Palestinian Men’s Struggles with Infertility in Israel and Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 23–52.
Published: 01 July 2009
... cost of treatment places it beyond the reach of many Palestinians, thus epitomizing their civil marginality and poverty. In Israel, where fertility treatment is state-funded, eligibility on the grounds of one’s Israeli citizenship comprises a relatively positive experience for Palestinian men, who...
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Bargaining with the Devil: States and Intimate Life
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., or change the rules in sexual and family life in order to address a range of problems and challenges, including lack of economic and other resources, political and citizenship exclusions, or intimate violence. What are the implications of relying on states as the main arbiters of rights and protections...
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Communicating Gender in the Public Sphere: Women and Information Technologies in the MENA
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
Published: 01 July 2006
... are not taking place in the absence of women’s contribution and participation. Drawing on examples from different countries, I demonstrate how women are shaping, impacting, and redefining the public sphere by producing alternative discourses and images about womanhood, citizenship, and political participation...
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A Question of Personal Status: The Lebanese Women’s Movement and Civil Marriage Reform
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the debate on civil marriage reform and the implications for women’s rights in Lebanon. For advocates, the recognition of civil marriage legalizes interreligious marriages, strengthens secular citizenship, shifts the jurisdiction of marriage from religious to civil law, and ensures women’s rights. Opponents...
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Politics of Location in Persepolis : The Social and Literary Construction of the Place, Space, and Belonging for Iranian Women in Persepolis versus Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... narratives of nationhood and female citizenship by documenting the trauma of the Iranian Left in the history of the nation. However, because of her specific color-blind politics of race and antireligious politics of gender, her work overlooks some groups of Iranian women’s existence and experiences. Thus...
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The Pleasures of Domesticity: Household Appliances, Gender, and the Democratization of Well-Being in Nasser’s Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... advertisements. However, the language of pleasure, beauty, and happiness used to advertise household goods prior to the revolution became embedded in new gendered definitions of citizenship after it. Advertisements also depicted women as primary beneficiaries of Egyptian state socialism and, in doing so, papered...
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Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
... be attributed to the consolidation of Baʾathist political ideology and a militaristic regime, in which the idealization of the male warrior delineates models of Syrian citizenship. I therefore take a different approach: I argue that masculinism is an element not of explanation but of interpretation—a tool...
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Are They Married?: Muslim Marriages and the Interrelationship between Transnationalism and Ethnonationalism in the Gulf
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to the production of both citizenship regimes and familial, ethnonational, and religious belongings. 1 Marriage is one of the means through which citizenship is conferred. It is also an act (though not singular) and constitutes an ongoing set of relationships through which households are established...
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The First International Conference of the Nobel Women’s Initiative: Women Redefining Peace in the Middle East and Beyond
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 125–131.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to be construed as full citizens with automatic citizenship
rights. In the logic of the master narrative, it follows that men should
determine the direction of society and the state in the postconfl ict cli-
mate. In contrast, women’s non-participation in the physical defense
of the state means that they do...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 1–7.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., Chatfield, and Pagnucco
1997), “transnational advocacy networks” (Keck and Sikkink 1998), and
“transnational feminist networks” (Moghadam 2005).
A burgeoning literature on civil society, citizenship, and democra-
tization has emerged in the context of Middle East Studies, in tandem...
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Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 290–292.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... They are responsible for the reproduction of a body politic defined primarily by patriarchal lineage predicated on religion without themselves being accorded full national citizenship, since they cannot pass citizenship rights down to their children and since they have sexual, reproductive, and marriage rights...
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Contributors
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 123–124.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Editor and co-founder of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Stud-
ies. Joseph’s research focuses on her native Lebanon and examines the
politicization of religion; women in local communities; women, family
and state; and questions of self, citizenship, and rights. She is founder
and facilitator...
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Religious Bodies and the Secular State: The Merve Kavakçi Affair
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 46–72.
Published: 01 November 2005
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protest, and the woman herself ended up barred from her job and stripped of
her citizenship. Indeed, the reaction to Kavaks parliamentary debut was re-
markably dramatic and consuming in terms of national discursive focus and
energy and in terms of media time.
To give some context...
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The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 449–453.
Published: 01 November 2021
...) but also a unified site of consensus. Shakhsari shows that “the contentious discussions around the 2005 presidential election did not appear in Weblogistan out of thin air but were rooted in an already-existing transnational Iranian civil society,” including “women’s existing practices of citizenship...
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Contributors
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 March 2005
... and gender constructions; women’s net-
works; citizenship and civil society; and how children learn gendered notions
of rights, responsibilities, nationality and citizenship. She is founder of the
Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, the Arab Families Working
Group and General Editor...
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