... with a focus on the impact of European medicine and redefinitions of evidence and expertise. Through case studies drawn from judicial archives and published jurisprudence, this study traces the paradoxical effects of colonial medicalization on Muslim women’s divorce based on forced or failed consummation...

... at the lower strata of British colonial society. Nurses’ tales thus offer a unique perspective for investigating colonial power relations and the intersections of medicine, gender, race, and class. Mandate Palestine British nurses imperial agents empire and gender On July 31, 1926, a scandalous...

... and colonized. Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. women professions colonialism postcolonial history of medicine The present theme issue...

... Media Co., Scott catalogs, www.scottonline.com. The extensive literature on the history of medicine in Iran, and the Middle East more broadly, rarely considers nurses. While recent studies have explored the significance of colonial medicine to imperial modes of governance and state formation...

... . Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–1956 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Aoyama Atsuko . 2001 . Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: Well-Being for All . Washington, DC : World Bank . Barnes Nicole . 2018...

...: An Iraqi Country Doctor,” reaffirms the narrative that modern Iraq’s medical infrastructure was a component of the British colonial enterprise. Arguing that Iraq’s minorities achieved political and social integration through medicine, Zubaida briefly mentions a young midwife chaperoned by her mother as she...

...Edna Bonhomme Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century . Gadelrab Sherry Sayed . London : Tauris , 2016 . 216 pages. isbn 9781780767512. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017...

... . Amster Ellen J. 2013 . Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–1956 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Arnold David . 1993 . Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India . Berkeley : University...

... consequences: economic sanctions that devastate possibilities of trade, destabilize local currencies, and create mass shortages of necessary goods like food, fuel, and medicine. Thus sanctions have a profound impact on those who are already vulnerable—women and others marginalized by patriarchal structures...

... Studies 16 , no. 2 : 182 – 98 . Amster Ellen . 2013 . Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–1956 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Asad Talal . 2003 . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, and Modernity . Stanford...

...Liat Kozma; Benny Nuriely Abstract The article analyzes the gendered experience at Hebrew University Medical School in its first two decades, 1950–70. Contrary to earlier studies on women in medicine, which focused on immigrant doctors to late Ottoman and mandatory Palestine, gendering the future...

... taken place since the Second World War. The same centers of power that once presumed to teach proper sexual mores and continence to Arab and other colonial subjects now pretend to a level of sexual freedom and tolerance that sets the standard for legislative and social progress around the world...

... to access new careers in medicine, trade, and journalism (Elshakry 2007 : 181). Indeed, although the SPC’s student body remained majority Christian and all male until the 1920s, the Protestant educational network offered relatively broad opportunities for social mobility, funneling students from villages...

... BOOK REVIEWS  105 control of women’s bodies. Th is is the core of Boddy’s argument, and she has done an exceptional job of organizing and presenting the colonial administration’s political-cultural imperatives for the development of these schools. Photos of this midwifery training from...

..., 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...

... Aanti-female genital mutiliation (FGM) campaigners who used them-help- ing-us rhetoric to practice what she called “colonialism in disguise” (1980). To women of the regions where forms of FGC (FGC) are practiced, the Western feminist leaders who displayed ethnocentric polemics to denounce the harm...

... and the Rhetorics of Reproductive (In)justice .” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 34 , no. 3 : 126 – 63 . Ghosh Durba . 2006 . Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Grayson Deborah R. 1998 . “ Black Surrogate Mothers...

...Wael J. Salam Abstract This article explores the thematic and aesthetic depictions of the colonized in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) by extending the postcolonial theory of the subaltern. This Moroccan American novel reconstructs the colonial history of the sixteenth-century Spanish...

... . A Dying Colonialism , translated by Chevalier Haakon . New York : Grove . Fatès Youssef . 2003 . “ Le club sportif, structure d’encadrement et de formation nationaliste de la jeunesse musulmane pendant la période coloniale .” In De l’Indochine à l’Algérie: La jeunesse en mouvements...

... concerning criminal statistics in Egypt during the British colonial period between 1882 and 1952, relative poverty did increase, nonviolent and property crimes did rise in growing cities, and women were involved in such crimes. While I do not contest state crime statistics in this article, I also do not take...