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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... interventions that suppressed expert witnessing by local women birth attendants ( qabla s) and instead privileged the witness credibility of husbands as heads of households. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 Algeria colonial law colonial medicine expert witness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 292–313.
Published: 01 November 2018
... an analogy between admission of DNA tests and admission of a tear in Joseph’s shirt as evidence that his claim and not hers was truthful. Turning to rational arguments, al-Salami mentions the total certainty that experts attribute to genetic testing, whereas witness testimony produces only a probability...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., their families labeled them as having been already “circumcised by
the Virgin Mary” (Rye 2002). So it would not be surprising if a Georgia
pediatrician without much circumcision experience erred in assessing
the clitoris of a squirming three-year-old.
According to a defense expert witness, the girl’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
... data including an original expert-coder scale of Islamist power, and estimate an instrumental variable model to allay concerns of endogeneity. A case study of Jordan explicates their causal argument. The results are robust to different measures of Islamist strength and to different estimation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 246–250.
Published: 01 July 2016
... more than a decade ago from a coming together of intellectual frustration and technological possibility. The 1970s through the 1990s witnessed an explosion of women’s history and the gendering of historical research and writing, but this development had a highly uneven global scope. The unevenness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 117–124.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Illinois at Chicago, a specialist in Arab and Arab American feminist studies, and an expert on Arab American women’s struggles, writes: I have never before witnessed a space like the Arab Women’s Committee in the United States, where Arab immigrant and refugee women have the opportunity to not only...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Susan Slyomovics Fatna El Bouih stands as a well-known Moroccan activist whose life embraces a remarkable trajectory and a wide array of roles: former political prisoner, writer, academically trained sociologist, witness, individual claimant for truth commission reparations, and, most recently...
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Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict: Between Transient Change and Masculine Backlash
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412169.
Published: 19 September 2024
... and subject-matter experts show that there is indeed a shift in the gender power balance caused by women assuming the mantle of primary earners within their households. This shift has bolstered women s status and decision-making authority within the household, not only regarding economic issues but also...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 14–40.
Published: 01 November 2012
... as breathing: freedom.19
The founder of the Iranian Queer Railroad (IRQR), a Canada-based
organization that purports to help Iranian queer refugees all over the
world, Parsi has been deemed by the mainstream international media to
be the expert on the persecution of queers in Iran. Before establishing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 152–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
... as indeterminate or complex, even when assigning them a “provisional” legal sex. Premodern Islamic experts largely understood intersex as ambiguous and mutable when addressing inheritance, prayer, burial, dress, travel, and marriage. Islamic legal discourse intersex medial sex khuntha mushkil Islamic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2005
...: it is possible
for one to leave prison and return to a normal life, telling people what
one has seen.
(El Saadawi 1986:9)
n 16 April 1996, the first witness to appear at the first hearing on the
Ofirst day...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 143–151.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., experts’ discussions of intersex do not seem to have been primarily motivated by a desire to protect men. It is clear, however, that something changed in the twentieth century as scholars became ideologically resistant to the possibility that Muslim societies tolerated degrees of deviance from binary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2012
... interests include civil society and youth movements, politics of memory, world society, and cultural globalization, with a regional focus on Morocco and Egypt. From 1996 to 1998, she served as a Junior Expert at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Cairo. Prior to that, she worked as Program Officer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
... by unskilled and uneducated women. Women’s domestic work earnings were often a combination of wages and used household items donated as charity by employers. At the same time, female servants witnessed the higher living standard of their employers and during their workday had access to most of their employers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
... 1907 ). He may also have been motivated to write the book because he believed that there was widespread ignorance of proper sexual health. He had witnessed another physician from Gülhane fatally poison himself after mistaking mercuric chloride for a virility drug and ingesting it. Practical knowledge...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2012
... much on the trauma itself; this article highlights the
tension between victimhood and agency with which these women are
struggling. While in psychological research and practice we witness an
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inflationary use of the concept...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 167–184.
Published: 01 July 2023
... from which to operate. Like the media, public speeches, educational systems, and expert coalitions act like mediating agencies (Korkut et al. 2015 ). Government-supported NGOs also play a crucial role in this process of social knowledge construction (Ketola 2013 , 2019 ). The state imposes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 72–95.
Published: 01 March 2023
... has been criticized for failing to outline the structural barriers faced by the research subjects (Connell 2015 ). Nonetheless, Professing Selves has been the most widely recognized academic representation of transsexuality in Iran and has earned Najmabadi recognition as the expert...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Violence ( 2011 ), a.k.a. the Istanbul Convention. 6 However, given the state of heightened violence in the country and the absence of institutional will to address it effectively, this commitment stayed on paper. Monitoring reports by local women’s organizations and the Group of Experts on Action...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575444.
Published: 10 January 2025
... transwomen in Gezi Park in 1987 and, subsequently, the meetings called Wednesday Teas (Çar amba Çaylar organized under the guidance of brahim Eren (Y ld z 2019). The 1990s witnessed some growth in the LGBTI+ movement: its activism increased, and its attempts to organize around associations and fanzines...
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