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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Kristina Richardson The organization of the book presumes a historical progression toward the present moment, when Arab authors are beginning to construct their female disabled characters as nuanced subjects, but Hamdar does not present this moment as a Fukuyaman end of history. Rather, she...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 458–460.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Shahd Alshammari Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 There is a crude distinction between activism and academe, between academe and creative writing, and between academic and disabled academic. I am an Arab woman, a disabled academic, a creative writer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 72–76.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Stephen Sheehi The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability . Jasbir K. Puar Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 267 pages. isbn 978082269189 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Jasbir K. Puar’s acclaimed book The Right...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 305–325.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Aitemad Muhanna-Matar Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced...
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in Riding the Korean Wave in Iran: Cyberfeminism and Pop Culture among Young Iranian Women
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Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 5. Iranian BTS fans’ financial support of the mentally disabled.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
...: transformations from a whole body to a partial body, from healthy to ill, from interconnected to isolated, and from wholesome to poisoned. This article argues that the systemic disabling and poisoning of women’s bodies in the novel violates the sanctity of the home and body and mirrors the destruction...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 79–86.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Shahd Alshammari Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 There is a daunting scarcity of illness narratives and even fewer fictional texts that include a disabled female heroine in Arab literary works. Disability features in various texts as a subtheme, part...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 453–454.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., madness and patriarchy, and examine madwomen as agents of resistance. Madwomen in literary narratives are excluded from the discourse of normalcy; they may be mentally deranged, physically disabled, or both. The final chapter of Egyptian Miral al-Tahawy’s The Tent deals with madness and disability...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 133–137.
Published: 01 March 2007
... at the Women and Gender
Studies Institute of the University of Toronto, where she is researching the
politics of gender, diaspora, and nationalism in emerging transnational
disability rights organizations. Rachel teaches in the Equity Studies and
Women’s Studies programs. Her courses include Disability...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 94–103.
Published: 01 March 2018
.../substantive-erasures_essays-on-academic-boycott-an . Puar Jasbir K. 2013c . “ Homonationalism as Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities .” Jindal Global Law Review 4 , no. 2 : 23 – 43 . Puar Jasbir K. 2015 . “ The Right to Maim: Disablement and Inhumanist Biopolitics...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 July 2017
... derangement, it is significantly limited, for it is “ The Tent [that] succeeds where its tragic protagonist fails,” but only in “break[ing] free of the patriarchal stranglehold upon representations of female physical illness and disability” (Hamdar 2014 , 90). Most damningly, Sabry Hafez ( 2008 , 375) finds...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 252–253.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and physical phenomenon offers the opportunity to challenge social binaries and rethink social otherness, the research integrates the scholarships of feminist disability studies, anthropology of the senses, and visual culture into a scholarly conversation. My multisensory methodological and analytic approach...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 151–153.
Published: 01 November 2013
... women’s studies 9:2
tinian community based disability rehabilitation network. Since 2000,
she has been focusing on understanding the impact of chronic war-like
conditions and excessive exposure to violence on the health and well-
being of Palestinians, with an emphasis on psychosocial...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of hegemony in the exact moment of its crisis. References Açıksöz Salih Can . 2012 . “ Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty: Disabled Veterans, Masculinity, and Nationalist Politics in Turkey .” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26 , no. 1 : 4 – 25 . Altınay Ayşe Gül . 2004 . The Myth...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... rehabilitation and helping the unemployed find temporary work. The boardinghouse also took in individuals who could no longer work because of infirmity or disability, lifting the burden for such care from working families. 44 For the able-bodied, the search for work pushed the SLAS to coordinate with agencies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 July 2008
... cutting, poverty,
sexual practices), to the oft en ignored or the unusual, such as sports,
aging, science, nation and medicalization, disabilities, suicide and food. Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 144–164.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Figure 5. Iranian BTS fans’ financial support of the mentally disabled. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
... charities and taking care of disadvantaged segments of the population, such as the elderly and disabled. In the 1990s the medium visibility correlated with a decrease in traditional and ceremonial roles carried out by Mrs. Mubarak. For example, her “noblesse oblige” roles, measured by articles on her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
... placed before Arab women that may seem impassable. In Om Amira , a short documentary, class is the primary roadblock. Om Amira is a middle-aged woman who makes a precarious living selling potatoes near Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The sole wage earner for her family of four, which includes a disabled husband...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 112–121.
Published: 01 March 2016
...-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Contemporary Turkey .” Women’s Studies International Forum 41 , no. 1 : 14 – 23 . Açıksöz Salih Can . 2012 . “ Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty: Disabled Veterans, Masculinity, and Nationalist Politics in Turkey .” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26...
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