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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 66–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Sara Salem Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment . Amalia Saʾar . Oxford : Berghahn , 2016 . 262 pages. isbn 9781785331794 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 110–146.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Studies 2005 1. This paper draws on a longer version commissioned by UNRISD for its Gender Policy Report of 2005. I wish to thank Shahra Razavi for her comments on the first draft of the paper. 110 ¤GH¤¤ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
WOMEN’S ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., or change the rules in sexual and family life in order to address a range of problems and challenges, including lack of economic and other resources, political and citizenship exclusions, or intimate violence. What are the implications of relying on states as the main arbiters of rights and protections...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 86–109.
Published: 01 July 2007
... movement, undermining women’s efforts and paving the way for religious conservative victories in the 2004 parliamentary elections and President Ahmadinejad’s election in 2005 on a platform of economic justice. The irony is that economic problems led to the victory of a religious conservatism unfavorable...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 90–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
... rights education programs and economic development initiatives are needed to attain such empowerment. This article describes several women-run grassroots-level non-governmental programs that address women’s legal and economic development. It illustrates the ways in which these programs can operate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 12–30.
Published: 01 November 2008
... shows how Sertel analytically linked women’s economic dependence with ideologies of sexual honor that limited and controlled access to women’s sexuality. This led her to identify the origins of prostitution as economic, to oppose the licensing of brothels and the regulation of prostitutes by the state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Diane Singerman Uprisings are complex, rare phenomenon, and this article suggests that the shared regional diffusion of protest in the Arab Spring was lubricated by the economic inequalities of neoliberalism. Young people in Egypt and the larger Middle East have been disproportionately...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
... most impediments toward Egyptian independence; however, British troops remained in the Suez Canal zone. With respect to economic history, multinationals were expanding in Egypt, while an emerging bourgeoisie worked to establish local industries. With World War II came economic crisis: inflation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 July 2019
... is threefold. In addition to embracing the multiple subjectivity of the interlocutors, it moves beyond the standard political-economic approach that generally informs marriage studies in the Middle East and dismantles monolithic perceptions of Middle Eastern kin networks. Copyright © 2019 by the Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 307–325.
Published: 01 November 2020
... novel, The Horrible Tehran , by Murtiza Mushfiq Kazimi. Associating prostitution with economic corruption, political and administrative decay, and religious hypocrisy, Iranian male writers directed their attention toward representing the sexually wayward woman. By scrutinizing the image...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
... historically conditioned challenges facing the regime, such as relations with Islamists, the adoption of neoliberal economic policies, and Hosni Mubarak’s frail health in the final years of his rule. 1. Traditionalism is defined by its opposite, modernity, “defined to mean many things: access to modern...
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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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and traditional middle class often conform to hegemonic masculinity through their “family guy” performances and limit their sexual desires, professional middle-class gay men mobilize their social, economic, and cultural capital to carve out a gay life where they can perform a “sophisticated” gay identity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2007
... for economic independence, challenging the very concept of namus (honor), and at times calling into question the value of the institution of marriage. The column often appeared in proximity to reports of youth suicides. Thus the column and its context allow us to examine the social tensions produced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2008
... treatment are mediated by women’s socioeconomic position within Iranian society. Many women lack economic access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) technologies and fear the moral consequences of gamete donation. Thus, the benefits of the Iranian ART revolution are mixed: although many Iranian women have been...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 14–40.
Published: 01 November 2012
... on the Internet, discourses of protectorship, valorizations of mobility in cyberspace and diasporic imaginations, and the political and economic opportunities for neoliberal entrepreneurship and expertise during the war on terror. In this process, the normative Iranian homosexual is produced as a victim...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2012
... with a brief review of recent Egyptian economic history, focusing on metaphorical colonization and the policing of gender and sexuality. Also important for contextualizing of this study is a review of identity formation and national identity, as well as of recent issues surrounding censorship. In order...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 109–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in the status of Arab women and attitudes toward their participation in the labor force are due not to changes in the social structure of Arab society but to economic structural constraints at the national level. Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014 khaled abu asbah, muhammed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
... public debates that preceded, accompanied, and followed the new Family Law; these debates involved practically all public actors ranging from social, to economic, religious, and political actors and, along with the Family Law, shows that women’s feminist ideas and associations were inserting themselves...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
... feminists would especially benefit from regional transnational links—given the nature of the social, economic, political, and geopolitical challenges that face the women and the people of the region in an age of capitalist globalization and empire—the paper warns that some dominant feminisms in the region...
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