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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract Between 1870 and 1930 the French colonial state in Algeria expanded its regulatory prerogatives in the governance of Muslim “personal status law” without abandoning its policy commitments to “respect local custom.” This article examines this fraught historical process...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
... on lay practice as a form of medical training. Women’s ascension in the medical profession was further thwarted by colonial accreditation requirements and a series of laws that emerged during the British occupation and the ensuing mandate. Gradually and in limited numbers, some women were afforded...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 129–131.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., Francophone North Africa, South
Africa, and critical theory, as well as abstract psychoanalysis, postco-
lonial critique, literary and political appropriations of psychoanalysis,
colonial law and manipulations of kinship structures, postcolonial Islam,
feminist, gender and queer theory, and fin-de...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and critical theory, as well as abstract psychoanalysis, postcolonial critique, literary and political appropriations of psychoanalysis, colonial law and manipulations of kinship structures, postcolonial Islam, feminist, gender and queer theory, and fin-de-siècle culture. Al-Kassim is the author of On Pain...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 140–143.
Published: 01 July 2005
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historical period, could yet follow different paths with respect to family law and
women’s rights in the aftermath of independence. The main question is one of
how structural and historical forces in the pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolo-
nial eras contributed to processes of state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 103–106.
Published: 01 July 2011
... by colonial, national, and transnational forces and
how local actors are active participants in negotiating and contesting
state laws that impact their lived realities. The contributors question the
role of modern nation-states as champions of equal rights and gender
egalitarian principles by exposing...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 261–263.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and marital and sexual relations through the Citizenship and Entry Law, which she posits as a racializing technology of colonial power. The law prohibits the Palestinian spouses or children of Israeli citizens (approximately 20 percent of whom are Palestinian) from obtaining permanent residency status...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 106–109.
Published: 01 July 2011
... OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 7:2
Asia presents legal discourses in an accessible and engaging manner.
It makes an important contribution to the question of gender, law, and
family and provides a welcome addition to interdisciplinary scholarship.
Given the dearth of comparative...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 122–131.
Published: 01 March 2024
... broadly interpreted by the authorities, the courts, and police to target queer people, even though since 2009 several lower courts (and the high appellate court of Mount Lebanon) have rejected prosecution cases based on this colonial-era law. Nevertheless, the number of arrests under this article...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
... coloniale: Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1830–1962 (Colonial Prostitution: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, 1830–1962). Paris : Payot . Trabulsi Fawwaz N. 1996 . “ Un amour de soi ” (“A Love of Self/Silk”). L’Orient Express , May 6 . Walkowitz Judith . 1980 . Prostitution and Victorian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 479–484.
Published: 01 November 2021
...-Lebanese women. On the international level, Syro-Lebanese activists sought to end colonialism and establish an international women’s rights system that acknowledged the multiplicity of women’s rights systems in the interwar world, including the civil and common law traditions in force in the United States...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the reader into the French
colonial legacy in Algeria, the design and re-design of the Republic over
the twentieth century, and the collision between laïcité, loosely defi ned
by Bowen as “the removal of religious content from public space” (274),
and Islam. In three parts, “State...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 54–80.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Rita Giacaman; Penny Johnson In focus groups and individual interviews with the wives and mothers of Palestinian political prisoners, we find that their narratives describe a triple captivity—of the Israeli colonial system, the Israeli prison, and the post-Oslo Palestinian political landscape...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
... inspiration from developments across the decolonizing world, nationalists promoted women’s “rights and duties” to build a “new Morocco” beyond the constraints of French colonialism. State formation became dependent on a profound social transformation. Following independence in 1956, however, King Mohammed V...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2012
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Qand suffocating factors: censorship, heteronormative discourse,
religious and state-sanctioned law, and homophobic violence.1 These
problems are central to this body of work, which explores bloggers’ in-
terpretations of the structures that limit their expression of sexual ori...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to raise awareness and encourage progressive social change, wielding it as a tool of resistance. By writing about the unjust laws imposed on women, as well as dealing with a broad range of social and political topics such as refugees, Israeli settler colonialism, and the Palestinian government, she has...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Marya Hannun References Ahmed Faiz . 2017 . Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Dogangün Gökten Huriye . 2019 . Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia: From State Feminism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 329–336.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., to return to Palestine. For decades the Israeli settler-colonial project has worked to dispossess us of our homeland by any means possible: for example, by forcing someone like me—born in Jerusalem and able to trace my lineage in the region back centuries—to prove to Israeli airport workers that I am...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 348–350.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that breaks with colonial histories and is yet haunted by the colonial present (27). Crucial to the narrative of contesting colonial power through archives is the visual theorist Ariella Azoulay’s essay in the anthology. Azoulay makes an important distinction between the “material archive” of the people...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
... man-
kind was attributed, by law and practice, to property-owning middle- or
upper-class white men, masculinity was often interpellated as a figure of
sexual excess or developmental atavism—marked by class/criminality
or race/coloniality (Bederman 1995, Carver 1996). Masculinity stud-
ies...
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