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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 July 2015
... analysis, I closely examine the borderline space between the ideals of beautification and concealment and how women construct their fashionable veiling in it. By reading the women’s deployment of these ideals against their juristic connotations, I underscore the significance of the veiled Muslim femininity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 75–98.
Published: 01 November 2007
... and exam-
ines the dynamics of revealing and concealing hair in Iran. The image of
Iranian women has been politicized through the conventions of unveil-
ing and re-veiling. Political regimes have been instrumental in assigning
meanings to female hair and the veil and in constructing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 March 2022
... concealing her own bereavement and positionality as an exiled daughter of a father who was assassinated by a terrorist sectarian group. The balance she shows in her writing is simply commendable. The first chapter introduces the reader to the genesis of “the women question” at the time of the British...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 485–491.
Published: 01 November 2021
... dimensions of modern Moroccan gender history, on the one hand, and the central methodological challenges that conceal those dimensions, on the other. Even as the magazine’s content highlights multiple transnational axes of engagement, its relative obscurity points to some of the obstacles facing those who...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 68–74.
Published: 01 March 2018
...). Rashid cannot conceal his excitement when Joachim begins dating a German woman in Beirut (48). He is ecstatic when Joachim confesses his desire to conceive a child with her: “Oh my God, what’s happening? Has Germany been restored overnight? So has the German come back to his senses?” (40). Rashid...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
... large-scale works are not sketched or planned. In his topographic model, Sigmund Freud presented the id, ego, and superego as components of a person’s psyche. Similarly, Jung ( 1947 ) also examined the meanings concealed within all parts of the soul’s consciousness. Jung claimed that while we may...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 349.
Published: 01 November 2015
... as an architectural element to conceal the private from the public. The JMEWS 11:3 cover image by Hayv Kahraman ( Detail Decagram 2 ) evokes a refusal to be objectified but also the layers that block possibilities for fully seeing, whether one looks from the inside out or from the outside in. It offers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 117–123.
Published: 01 March 2015
... found that the best method to survive is to imitate, and maybe I did it too well, as I sometimes feel like I am between two worlds. I then started researching residential structures in the Arab region, which are engineered to segregate the sexes and conceal the private from the public. These houses...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 386–388.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on women’s victimhood during the genocide more than on how they survive in the aftermath. Ekmekçioğlu shows that Armenian women in Turkey confronted another phase of suffering in the post-genocide era when they were forced to forget or conceal their traumas to ensure the survival of their community...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 392–394.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to posit secularism as the guarantor of gender equality. In Sex and Secularism Joan Wallach Scott provocatively challenges this association. Scott argues that the claim that secularism ensures women’s emancipation is historically false. Moreover, this claim has functioned to conceal the centrality...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 68–87.
Published: 01 March 2016
... an evening with you and pass the time.” My notes from our conversation here indicate how much is missing in recording only, “We mused on the bitterness together for a minute, and on bad friendships.” I mused on my own lost friendships at that time, and I did not conceal my sorrow. Nor did he conceal his...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 486–488.
Published: 01 November 2017
... leaders. It is so brazen as to defy belief. Yet it is a form of governance—a form of governance that conceals or makes acceptable arbitrary, exploitative, and repressive measures that install new forms of “order.” Such order allows new forms of surveillance while pointing the fake finger of surveillance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 75–77.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to exculpate him from the get-go. Intellectually, I can understand how this circumlocutory narrative style can become a privileged literary subject of analysis, but I cannot help expressing my misgivings about the authorial setup. After psychologizing “Joachim . . . [who] conceals nothing and talks about...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 348–350.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of executions. Azoulay coins the phrase material archives to account for the ethical dissonance of an archon who is dismantled from within by the compulsion to share widely rather than conceal the source texts, or the substrate, of state violence. The Palestinian artist Emily Jacir’s activism exhibits...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and without any sense of shame, lying about her professional
identity (132), concealing her small video camera (109), or taking pictures
when people only reluctantly agreed (108). Occasionally I found her writ-
ing self-indulgent and bordering on the indiscreet where it concerned her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 265–267.
Published: 01 July 2021
... social workers draw on and conceal not only their own Islamic commitments but also, often, their own status as survivors. Chapter 7, “Above and Beyond,” was the one I found most surprising and distressing. Hammer relays how faith-based approaches to DV are received by secular organizations, detailing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... worlds in Dhahran that were together yet apart. The edges chafed, producing occasionally violent ruptures whose monstrous seams even the children glimpsed. Our mother writes of two incidents that illuminate these barely concealed edges. One story involves a childish stone-slinging match between nine-year...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 267–290.
Published: 01 November 2023
... themselves are created by overlaying single images, and each composite image is presented as part of a diptych or triptych. Bouderbala’s images conceal and reveal the female body, remarking on the multiple social veils worn by Tunisian women. Najah Zarbout also deploys doubling in artworks from the drawing...
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The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 March 2022
... heteronormativity conceals its own traces while pervading gender scholarship, for example when overemphasizing the visibility of female religious bodies and leaving male attires, affects, and attitudes aside. If these chapters explore the ways in which research practice and knowledge production should...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 135–138.
Published: 01 March 2008
... WOMEN’S STUDIES
of trouble and break down barriers between home and diaspora, public
and private, prison and occupation, respectability and disgrace, family
and community, or, alternatively, safely reveal what has been concealed,
or shore up a potential breach among family members...
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