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The Wavering Luck of Girls: Gender and Pre-Vocational Education in Israel
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Yossi Yonah; Ishak Saporta This research study is a development of our previous study about the pre-vocational training program introduced to the Israeli education system in the 1950s. However, while in the previous study we examined the role this program played in making Israel’s ethnoworking...
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Revolutionary Religiosity and Women’s Access to Higher Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 126–138.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Alex Shams Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Following the 1979 revolution, women’s access to higher education in Iran increased dramatically. In just two decades higher education went from a privilege afforded to a tiny minority of women to a social...
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Gender Perceptions of Male and Female Teachers in the Arab Education System in Israel
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 109–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Khaled Abu Asbah; Muhammed Abu Nasra; Khawla Abu-Baker This study examines gender perceptions and attitudes of Arab male and female teachers in Israel. This quantitative study includes 302 Arab Muslim male and female teachers in the Arab education system. The results show that participants believe...
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Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 149–152.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Mona Abaza Russell Mona L. , Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 . Palgrave, Macmillan , 2004 . Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 BOOK REVIEWS 149...
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Educated, Professional Women in Morocco and Women of Moroccan Origin in France: Asserting a New Public and Private Identity
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 48–70.
Published: 01 November 2006
... with samples of young, educated, and professional women in Morocco and in France. The purpose of the comparison was to determine the extent of similarities and differences in attitudes among the samples. The interview schedule focused on three themes: conceptions of Islam, legal Changes in Morocco...
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Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 125.
Published: 01 November 2014
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Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress by Fida J. Adely
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 128–131.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Marta Pietrobelli Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress , Adely Fida J. . Chicago; London : The University of Chicago Press , 2012 . 228 pages. ISBN 13-978-0-22600690-1 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014...
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Girl Guides, Athletes, and Educators: Women and the National Body in Late Colonial Algeria
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2019
... at the impact that new bodily practices, such as scouting and sports, had on gender relations within Muslim Algerian society during the last three decades of French rule. It contrasts the reformist discourse of the Islamic islah movement on women’s “emancipation” and education with the aspirations of young...
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Origins of Iran’s Modern Girls’ Schools: From Private/National to Public/State
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi This article sketches a history of Iran’s early girls’ school movement and examines its origins, goals, curricular content, and relationship to the state. It revises the tendency in the existing scholarship on modern education and reform to credit the Pahlavi state...
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Religious Change Among Yemeni Women: The New Popularity of ‘Amr Khaled
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 50–79.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Sophia Pandya While I was interviewing young, educated, employed Yemeni women regarding their religious practices, many conveyed to me that their favorite preacher was the charismatic Egyptian televangelist ‘Amr Khaled, whose show is broadcast in Sanaa and in many parts of the Middle East...
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Role-Playing in the Classroom: Gender Differences in Reactions of Bahraini Students
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 89–102.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Nina Abdul Razzak Faculty at Bahrain Teachers’ College were concerned that their students lacked the ability to succeed in educational contexts designed to promote deep, or active, student-centered, learning. Deep learning is an educational approach that involves critical analysis, the linking...
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Nursing (Inter)nationalism in Iran, 1916–1947
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 36–58.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Lydia Wytenbroek Abstract In the first half of the twentieth century, American missionary nurses, working under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission to Iran, established areas of educational innovation within mission medicine and Iranian health care. Drawing on Presbyterian mission records...
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Religious Flexibilies of Older Yemeni Women in Sanaa
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 52–79.
Published: 01 July 2014
... provide Qur’anic school education, including literacy training, for older, often illiterate, women for whom there are few other educational opportunities. The Salafis disapprove of Sufism and folk Islam, and in Yemen these activities have often been forced underground. Here I analyze the types of benefits...
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But What If Someone Sees Me?: Women, Risk, and the Aftershocks of Iran’s Sexual Revolution
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 2009
... conceptions of risk among urban Iranian women are not well understood. Due to the IRI’s strict ban on premarital sex, the distribution of educational information related to the health risks of sexual activity is extremely low, while the few existing sexual education programs are reserved for couples who...
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Women’s Shi‘i Ma’atim in Bahrain
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 July 2010
... to employ it for secular education of all kinds—legal, social, health—and even for political purposes. I focus on the ways in which education, and the Shi‘I Islamic resurgences that took place in Iran and Iraq, influenced Bahraini Shi‘i women in their interpretation of religion and their uses of religious...
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Male Migration and the Lebanese Family: The Impact on the Wife Left Behind
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 102–119.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., the husband’s level of education, and the wife’s level of education—to assess the changes that have taken place. Despite the fact that the analysis of the data based on the selected sample can shed some light on the issues raised, this survey should be seen as an exploratory one that requires in-depth follow-up...
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Astronomy for Girls: Pedagogy and the Gendering of Science in Late Ottoman Beirut
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 291–316.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Susanna Ferguson Abstract In 1874–75 American Protestant missionaries in Beirut published two astronomy textbooks in Arabic. While male students at the Syrian Protestant College studied Cornelius Van Dyck’s Foundations of Astronomy , girls at secondary schools—the highest level of female education...
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Religious Authority, Gendered Recognition, and Instrumentalization of Nusrat Amin in Life and After Death
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and reproduces Amin as a modern pious role model for Iranian women, a conservative in her viewpoints on gender relations, and an advocate of the veil. This selective attention worked to recuperate the traditional gender viewpoints of the Islamic Republic while facilitating demands to expand religious education...
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“The Quota Encouraged Me to Run”: Evaluating Jordan’s Municipal Quota for Women
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 261–282.
Published: 01 November 2015
... established their rightful presence on the local councils, a public realm previously deemed only for men. They successfully navigated the give-and-take of local Jordanian politics. In the process they gained a hard-won, invaluable political education and emerged as Jordan’s first sizable body of experienced...
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Women as Agents of Grassroots Change: Illustrating Micro-Empowerment in Morocco
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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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