...Marcia C. Inhorn Marcia C. Inhorn is Founding Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies . At Yale University, she is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center...

...Mandy Terc Gregg Gary S. . New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 . Pp. x , 458. ISBN 0195171993 . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BOOK REVIEWS  123 tive memories and their transmission...

...Nahrain Al-Mousawi Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa , Rieker Martina Ali Kamran Asdar , eds. New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . Pp. vi, 239 . ISBN 978-1-4039-7523-2 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 140...

...Lisa Hajjar 120  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  7:1 Reviews mn Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case Study Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. New...

...Azza Basarudin BOOK REVIEWS mn  103 Book Reviews mn Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai, eds...

...Khaled Al-Masri Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967 , Aghacy Samira . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2009 . 232 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3237-5 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...

...Joan Wallach Scott 116  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  8:2 lies in his effort to produce subjects that could successfully “typif[y]” the whole community (42). His focus on the synecdochic relation between individual and group appropriates Fredric Jameson’s highly...

... and provocative, especially with regard to the impact of the war on terror on the Middle East. The advantages of Al-Samman’s study are her adaptations of trauma theory for transnational feminist methodology. In this regard, the introductory chapters are more productive, while the latter chapters function...

...Mary Elaine Hegland Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 Women in the Middle East: Tradition and Change , Harik Ramsay M. Marston Elsa . Revised Edition . New York and Toronto : Franklin Watts , 2003 . 166 pp, Notes pp. 167–179 , Glossary 180...

...), and former co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies . She has co-directed UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies; co-chaired Islamic Studies; chaired UCLA’s Gender Studies Department, and directed two other Women’s Studies programs in the California State University system. She has also...

...Marcia C. Inhorn Marcia C. Inhorn is the recipient of the 2013 Middle East Distinguished Scholar Award, given by the Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association. This biennial award was established in 2006 to recognize the efforts of “a senior scholar in Middle Eastern...

...Asli Zengin; Sertaç Sehlikoglu Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. In the last decade the question of intimacy in the Middle East has...

...Rita Stephan Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society , Doumato Eleanor Abdella Posusney Marsha Pripstein , eds. Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2003 . Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006...

...Martina Rieker Guest Editor Martina Rieker is Director of the Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies ( www.aucegypt.edu/igws ) at the American University in Cairo. Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 4  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S...

...Marcia C. Inhorn In the Middle East, many men who experience reproductive difficulties within marriage end up undergoing a risky form of male genital surgery called “varicocelectomy.” Promoted by urological surgeons as a way to enhance fertility, varicocelectomy is a form of men's embodied...

...Jonathan Wyrtzen Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East . Liat Kozma . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2017 . 250 pages. isbn 139781438462615. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Liat...

... . Perin E. Gürel . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . 288 pages. isbn 9780231182027 (cloth) . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The biopolitical governmentality of nation-state projects ranges from managing ethnic and racial difference...

...Rebecca Barlow Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 REBECCA BARLOW  125 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE NOBEL...

... by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Social scientists are often engaged in the project of documenting and theorizing social and political transformation. Three recent texts that focus on everyday practices and politics in the Middle East take up this endeavor, through their mapping out...

...Paul Amar This article examines how everyday theories of masculinity and vernacular discourses of “masculinities in crisis” play crucial roles in misrecognizing, racializing, moralistically-depoliticizing, and class-displacing emergent social forces in the Middle East. Public discourses...