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Riding the Korean Wave in Iran: Cyberfeminism and Pop Culture among Young Iranian Women
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 144–164.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Gi Yeon Koo Abstract This study explores the Korean Wave and fandom in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It follows Iranian women’s consumption of Korean popular culture in the context of their general pop-culture consumption patterns and how they create a fan culture through social media and pop...
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Weddings and War: Marriage Arrangements and Celebrations in Two Palestinian Intifadas
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 11–35.
Published: 01 November 2009
... into the despair and exclusions of the second, transformed political engagement from a positive into a largely negative qualification. The material side of marriage has again become more important, public displays of consumption acceptable, and celebrations more expensive. These shift s are shaped by the effects...
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Marketing Muslim Lifestyle: A New Media Genre
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 58–90.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Reina Lewis Recently developed to serve the consumption needs of an emergent Islamic bourgeoisie, English-language Muslim lifestyle media depart from previous community media by including fashion as an integral part of the genre. Creating fashion editorial brings lifestyle publications up against...
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Images of Desire: Creating Virtue and Value in an Indonesian Islamic Lifestyle Magazine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 91–117.
Published: 01 November 2010
... rising Islamic fashion industry and lifestyle media have placed women at the center of broader cultural debates about the relationship between devotion and consumption. Carla Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research situates questions...
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Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Naïma Hachad Abstract In Bullets and Bullets Revisited (2009–14) the Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi invites the onlooker to reflect on the power dynamics of image production and consumption in a globalizing visual culture. As in the artist’s previous series, the photographs present Moroccan...
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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
... over some of the tensions in the state’s plan to mobilize women as workers, housewives, and consumers. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Egypt consumption gender household appliances In 1962 the daily newspaper...
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Savory Colonialism: Land, Memory, and the Eco-occupation of Palestine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 256–257.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Lila Sharif Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 As Palestinians continue to experience the violent decimation of their olive groves, the consumption of Palestinian olive oil grows increasingly popular through transnational fair trade circuits...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 November 2010
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through commodities and consumption practices (Abu-Lughod 1995;
2005; Öncü 1995; Saktanber 1997; 2002; Bilici 1999; Göle 1999; 2002;
Fealy and White 2008; Fischer 2008; Pink 2009). Muslims identify as
such and connect with one another through Islamic...
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Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 149–152.
Published: 01 July 2006
... and
modernity. Nancy Young Reynolds’ unpublished thesis on consumption
from 1910 until 1960 suggests how significant a role consumption played
in nationalist articulations with the issue of the boycott of foreign goods
and the dumping of local products, by focusing on the history of depart-
ment stores...
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Moroccan Fashion: Design, Culture, and Tradition by M. Angela Jansen
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2016
... defining Moroccan fashion for global consumption. Jansen’s manuscript draws from in-depth interviews with Moroccan fashion designers and observation fieldwork that complements her scholarly readings of Moroccan historians, anthropologists of dress, and fashion studies experts. However, tensions...
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Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan by Frances Hasso
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 146–149.
Published: 01 July 2006
... on consumption
from 1910 until 1960 suggests how significant a role consumption played
in nationalist articulations with the issue of the boycott of foreign goods
and the dumping of local products, by focusing on the history of depart-
ment stores in Cairo, which she studied from the angle of the evolution...
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A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 101–103.
Published: 01 March 2019
... modernity, class, identity, capitalist production, consumption patterns and taste, public and private space, Islamic law, and authenticity. She examines these elements to buttress her argument for the centrality of domesticity in shaping the history of the modern Levant. Although she states early...
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Contributors
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 200–202.
Published: 01 November 2010
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Carla Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Colorado, Boulder. Her research situates questions of class and gender
in the context of urban Indonesia. She has written on consumption, Is-
lam, mass media, and globalization, and was co-editor with Ann Marie
Leshkowich...
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Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 321–323.
Published: 01 July 2017
... sociopolitical contexts. The text flows like a garment from the inception to the marketing, consumption, and reinvestment with meaning of the Muslim fashion articles. I intentionally use the plural because, as Lewis argues, Muslim consumers are far from a unified category, the consumer population being itself...
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Marketing the Modern Egyptian Girl: Whitewashing Soap and Clothes from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1936
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... to public consumption; they would recognize the markers
of bourgeois modernity inscribed in each advertisement.
Marx provides a simple but useful definition of commodities: “A
commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by
its properties satisfies human wants...
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Queer Beirut Online: The Participation of Men in Gayromeo.com
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 113–137.
Published: 01 November 2012
... consumption, the integration of
new cultural materials through globalization and the migration/return
of Lebanese diaspora, and the development of a queer body politic and
activism (Makarem 2011, McCormick 2006, 2011, Merabet, 2009). Since
the end of the Lebanese civil war, urban...
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“The Muslim Woman” as Celebrity Author and the Politics of Translating Arabic: Girls of Riyadh Go on the Road
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
... marketplace. Like the tsunami of new books that seek to elucidate
varieties of Islam and shape Middle East–centered policy for readers in
the global North, memoirs help to shape the context for European and
American consumption of fictional literature from the region; the popu-
larity of memoir is one...
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Sex, Marriage, and Eroticism in Contemporary Islamic Advice Literature
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 54–80.
Published: 01 March 2013
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nately illicit context, rather than the narrow licit one, that provides the
governing framework upon which sexuality and eroticism are elaborated
in this discourse.
Eroticism as Objectifying, Exploitative,
and Consumptive
The first explicitly negative...
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Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 139–144.
Published: 01 November 2005
... in the economy of consumption. Many Palestin-
ians use imitation and competition, through buying material goods and
using them “properly,” to make claims about the relative modernity of
themselves and others, thereby attempting to raise themselves on an
economic hierarchy.
“Fertile Diff...
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Cover Art Concept
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 92–93.
Published: 01 March 2018
... piece by İz Öztat depicts water as the flowing and irrepressible context for the nourishment of life. Water is also an archive of unsustainable consumption, dense pooling, death, blockages, and barriers. Like several pieces in this issue, Öztat’s watercolor emerges from a storytelling project that asks...
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