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In the Shadows of Family Life: Toward a History of Domestic Service in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Ray Jureidini From a series of interviews with Lebanese middle- and upper-class women in their latter years, the paper traces an oral history of domestic service in Lebanon over the past century. The interviews reveal various periods when women and girls were recruited from the local village poor...
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An ordinary domestic scene with our Syrian grandmother, Muzayyan Kotob, sew...
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Figure 11. An ordinary domestic scene with our Syrian grandmother, Muzayyan Kotob, sewing in the foreground in their Aramco home and our uncle Ghassan in the background at the open American-style table set for a meal (early 1960s). Photograph by Fahmi Basrawi.
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Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Claire Beaugrand Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait . Attiya Ahmad . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 270 pages. isbn 9780822363446. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019...
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Sonallah Ibrahim and Miriam Naoum’s Zaat : Deploying the Domestic in Representations of Egyptian Politics
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., capitalism, and gender. In particular, the focus on the intimate in Zaat reveals how political projects are depicted in the domestic sphere through the lens of women’s work. The article explores two themes: one, the increasing financial pressure and its effects on constructs of masculinity and femininity...
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Simin Daneshvar and Shahrnush Parsipur in Translation: The Risk of Erasure of Domestic Violence in Iranian Women’s Fiction
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 124–143.
Published: 01 July 2020
... contemporary Iranian women writers domestic violence The emergence of women fiction writers in Iran dates back to the mid-twentieth century, well after male writers had established fiction as a new form of writing in Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fiction writing...
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Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 265–267.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Sarah Eltantawi Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence . Juliane Hammer . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . xi + 292 pages. isbn 9780691190877. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Juliane...
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Reversing the Domestic Gaze: Chaza Charafeddine’s Maidames Exhibition in Beirut
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2020
... are required to have a host-country sponsor, who is responsible for maintaining their legal status and controlling their mobility. The institution leaves a growing community of migrant workers, mostly women employed in domestic service, with no legal rights to escape abusive employers and poor working...
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Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr : Reading the Domestic as National in a Conversation between a Mother and a Daughter, 1919–1920
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Greenblatt’s notion of self-fashioning, and Nan Enstad’s definition of political subjects, this article analyzes a fictional correspondence between Salma and her daughter Mary, published in al-Fajr from late 1919 through 1920. The article argues that these letters marshal the discourse of domesticity—women...
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Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era
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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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Reimagining Royal Domesticity: Intimacy, Power, and Familial Relations in the Late Qajar Harem
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 July 2020
... life in the Qajar harem is a rich source of visual culture and information about domestic life, gender relations, and familial bonds at the late nineteenth-century royal Qajar court. Figure 2. “This group photograph was taken on the rooftop of Saltanatabad andarun .” Courtesy of Gulistan Palace...
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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
... following the 1952 revolution. It argues that the proliferation of advertisements for Egyptian-made stoves, refrigerators, and washing machines found in the popular press during this period envisioned domestic technology as a critical building block in a gendered social contract between the state...
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A Delicate Balancing Act: Women’s Rights and US Military Intervention in the Arab World
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Amaney Jamal; Irfan Nooruddin Abstract Historically Arab regimes have played critical roles in securing women’s rights in their societies. Yet regimes remain concerned about domestic, especially Islamist and traditionalist, reactions to women’s rights. When regimes feel they can overcome...
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Disreputable by Definition: Respectability and Theft by Poor Women in Urban Interwar Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., laundry stealing, scams, and stealing from domestic employers. Given their low wages, poor and working-class women had difficulty meeting their material needs in a semicolonial capitalist urban economy even when they worked in legal occupations. In addition, the legal work most available to them...
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The Ritual Fusion: Individuality, Tradition, and Sensory Memory in Iranian Women’s Islamic Gatherings in Los Angeles
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 216–237.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Afsane Rezaei Abstract This article explores domestic religious practices of Iranian Muslim women in Los Angeles. In the diasporic context, Iranian women’s voluntary engagement in vernacular Islamic practices is often associated with an unreflexive pursuit of religion and lack of agency...
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Contested Surrogacy and the Gender Order: An Israeli Case Study
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
... “ female” domestic character, received exceptional public attention and indeed called into question prevailing ideas and power relations. At the same time, in other contexts of the debate, the status quo was reaffirmed within an updated framework. On the whole, the dilemma at hand and the innovative...
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“In My Eyes He Was a Man”: Poor and Working-Class Boy Soldiers in the Iran-Iraq War
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
Published: 01 July 2018
... boys (between ten and fourteen) who enlisted, the expectation that they work took precedence. Moreover, at least some of these boys were eager to participate in war-front masculine homosociality rather than remain in feminized domestic spaces. This study analyzes biographies, census data, newspaper...
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Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Figure 11. An ordinary domestic scene with our Syrian grandmother, Muzayyan Kotob, sewing in the foreground in their Aramco home and our uncle Ghassan in the background at the open American-style table set for a meal (early 1960s). Photograph by Fahmi Basrawi. ...
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Putting Messianic Femininity into Zionist Political Action: The Race-Class and Ideological Normativity of Women for the Temple in Jerusalem
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a messianic femininity that emphasizes maternal duties and women’s redemptive power in Judaism while challenging male religious authorities and religious law in other areas. Activists define themselves as guardians of domestic space and the House of God (the future Third Temple) and redeemers of the Jewish...
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Where are the Men? Here are the Men and the Women!: Surveillance, Gender, and Strikes in Egyptian Textile Factories
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 28–53.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of gender relations for both men and women, and broadly reflects the impact of economic change on the domestic and work spheres. The factory materializes changing gender roles and narratives through policing and surveillance of workers’ behaviors, gendered logics of social control, and the visibility...
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The Mothers’ Paradise: Women-Only Parks and the Dynamics of State Power in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 87–108.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Nazanin Shahrokni Despite Iran’s geopolitical importance and mounting global concerns over its domestic and international practices, the state and its diverse mechanisms of rule have been largely neglected in mainstream sociology. To understand the state’s shifting modality of power between its...
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