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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 104–106.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Catherine Sameh Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era . Pamela Karimi . Abingdon : Routledge , 2013 . 258 pages. isbn 9780415781831. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 In Domesticity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 206–208.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Tara Stephan Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture . Eve Krakowski . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2018 . 350 pages. isbn 9780691174983 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Nicola Pratt Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Popular culture, particularly its gendered dimensions, remains relatively understudied in the field of Middle East studies, including Middle East gender studies. Yet it provides a fruitful arena...
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From Café Culture to Tweets: The Development of Saudi Arabia’s Public Sphere and Women’s Empowerment
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 320–328.
Published: 01 July 2022
... on the Politics and Culture of the Arab World .” PhD diss., University of Sussex . Al-Saggaf Yeslam , and Simmons Peter . 2015 . “ Social Media in Saudi Arabia: Exploring Its Use during Two Natural Disasters .” Technological Forecasting and Social Change , no. 95 : 3 – 15 . Alsahafi W...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as a microcosm of tensions around postcolonial emancipation and expression, reification of indigenous culture for consumption, and the powerful influence of in-country urban elites. Her arguments about the interconnectedness of modernity and tradition as expressed in fashion are transferable across a number...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 442–444.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Peter Limbrick After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East . Edwards Brian . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . 268 pages. isbn 9780231174008 (paperback 2017, isbn 9780231174015). Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 348–350.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East . Anthony Downey , ed. London : Taurus , 2015 . 469 pages. isbn 9781784534110. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 “We are literally in need of archives,” declares Hela Ammar, a Tunisian visual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State (1996) and contributed to numerous major edited collections and a number of journals within Middle East and gender studies. Her work on gender, Islam, and politics intersects political economy, colonial and postcolonial history, cultural studies, and women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 33–64.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Zeina Zaatari Zeina Zaatari earned her PhD in cultural anthropology with a designated emphasis in feminist theory from the University of California at Davis. She conducted fieldwork with women’s groups and women activists in South Lebanon detailing their life histories and the ways...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Karen Leonard Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity , Moghissi Haideh , ed. New York : Routledge , 2006 . Pp. xxv, 238 . ISBN 9780415770811 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 136–139.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Elhum Haghighat From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture , Soomekh Saba . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2012 . 224 pages. ISBN 978-1-4384-4383-6 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 July 2005
..., and geography in Iranian nationalism. She is currently completing two academic projects. The first, “Unveiling Women’s Lives: Science, Sexuality, and Religion in Modern,” documents the social and cultural history of Iranian women from the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the Islamic Republic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 143–165.
Published: 01 July 2016
... referring to women-only spaces in the culture of mahremiyet (intimacy, privacy). This article furthers the scholarship on Muslim sexualities by examining the diversity of women’s concerns regarding their public sexualities and the boundary-making dynamics in the culture of mahremiyet . I argue...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and secular practices and ideologies in Turkey. She has been doing ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul since 1996. Her primary research questions have examined competing and contested secular and Islamic visions and practices of contingent modernity in mall spaces, cultural politics of dress, and consumer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Mona L. Russell Abstract The creation of a hybrid beauty in the cartoon sphere and in advertising intersected with popular and consumer culture at a moment when women’s roles in the public sphere were changing. Politically the nation was at a crossroads: the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936 removed...
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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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 30–59.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Sophie Richter-Devroe Conflict resolution theory and praxis have been criticized for being insensitive to local cultures and, particularly, for not considering culturally specific gender roles carefully enough. Yet, on the other hand, culturally sensitive and gender-friendly approaches have also...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 242–244.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Gülriz Şen [email protected] Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions . Liora Hendelman-Baavur . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . ix + 330 pages. isbn 9781108726931 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 122–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
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BOOK REVIEWS
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures I:
Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources
Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xlix+632. US$326.
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures II...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 229–231.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Kathryn Medien Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, from Tunisia to Japan . Marnia Lazreg . New York : Berghahn , 2017 . 282 pages. isbn 9781785336225. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Marnia Lazreg’s...
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