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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 492–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Gülşah Şenkol Torunoğlu Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Women’s and gender history began to move in a comparative direction during the late 1990s, opening up new possibilities in scholarship about Western and non-Western contexts alike. Sonya Michel...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2018
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 125–127.
Published: 01 November 2005
... paper.
Christopher Livanos, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wis-
consin, Madison
Baum introduces the life and literary aft erlife of Shirin, wife of Chosroes
II and inspiration for one of the greatest traditions in Middle Eastern
literature. From...
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in “Why Don’t You Go to Nursing School?”: Hebrew University Medical School as a Gendered Experience, 1950–1970
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 1. Total Hebrew University Medical School graduates compared to female graduates, 1952–79. Hebrew University Archives, graduation ceremony, 1952–79. The year 1971 is missing from the archival data.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Kamran Rastegar A comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 48–70.
Published: 01 November 2006
... demarcation line is oft en drawn between the Arab/Muslim world and secular Western societies and is drawn into question when minority populations are taken into consideration. This is a comparative, qualitative study examining attitudinal changes and discerning cultural trends based on in-depth interviews...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 23–52.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli; Marcia C. Inhorn Male infertility, which contributes to roughly 60–70% of infertility cases in the Middle East, is especially agonizing in this region, where fatherhood is crucial to achieving masculine adulthood and community standing. In this paper, we compare...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
...David Simonowitz In the Islamic world, an important body of biographical material traces the chains of transmission of calligraphic instruction over many centuries. Although there is comparatively little documentation on women who have practiced calligraphy, scattered references do mention female...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in the hoshiyya —a Bedouin courtship dance—with how women dancers enact and revise such codes in everyday life. The article explores choreographies of gender through a careful reading of tensions between the moving bodies of men and the embodied practices of the woman soloist onstage. It also compares this model...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Andrea Fischer-Tahir In 1988 the Iraqi regime launched the Anfal campaigns against the Kurdish peshmerga and their civil supporters in the rural areas. This article investigates narrations about Anfal constructed by peshmerga ten years after the events. It compares the memoirs of a leading...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Erdağ Göknar This essay compares and contrasts Turkish author Halide Edib’s novel The Shirt of Flame (Duffield & Company, 1921) to the second volume of her memoirs, The Turkish Ordeal (The Century Company, 1928). Both texts have female protagonists and parallel plots and take place during...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 177–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Burcu Dabak Özdemir Abstract This essay analyzes how postfeminism is constructed on a visual level in the Turkish context. It uses theories of postfeminism to discuss new popular romantic comedies of Turkish cinema by comparing the new female protagonists with the women portrayed in Yeşilçam...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 308–334.
Published: 01 November 2024
... ranged from 41 percent (Egypt) to 63 percent (Tunisia). 8 Comparing our sample demographics to those from two representative international surveys from the same year demonstrates that Facebook users were, on average, younger, more highly educated, more likely to be men, and more often single than...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to internationalize their curricula, in the desire
to expand and deepen knowledge about women’s lives through explicitly in-
ternational, interdisciplinary, and comparative perspectives. Feminist theory
has also been greatly expanded and revised in multiple ways by scholars from
around the world...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 July 2008
... research community. An audience of approximately 50
listened to the discussion and attended the reception that followed.
Conference participants represented various disciplines including
Anthropology, Communications Studies, Comparative Literature, His-
tory, Islamic Studies, and Women’s Studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 122–123.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., and Lebanon. She is the author of
Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants,
and the Writing of Identity (SUNY Press, 2006). Civantos received a Ph.D.
in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 453–457.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., as well as the disciplinary boundaries and modes of analysis within the academy that supported these conditions and restricted “more comparative and critical ways” of reading and writing. 1 Her work was always critical, generative, and political. The author of several edited volumes and numerous...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 311–319.
Published: 01 July 2022
... (CT0723_2011 Census n.d.). 1 Learning a new culture but not losing one’s own has always been a challenge among Iranians. This article offers a comparative analysis of two studies examining Iranian first-generation migrants’ understandings of power, belonging, and respectability in the diaspora. It provides...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of what they mock as “air-conditioned Islam” or “market Islam.” They apply these pejorative labels to the populist preaching of new Islamists, who hold that piety and prestige can coexist and that wealth is a sign of being chosen by God (202). Nieuwkerk offers a comparative discussion of Oliver Roy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 March 2015
... This panel at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women represents a milestone—not only for the many histories of Libya but also for those of North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe and for the study of women, gender, and empire globally and comparatively. The panel demonstrated that modern Libya...
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