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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 251–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
...-double-discours-des-medias-francais-sur-les-femmes-saoudiennes,2488 . At the time of this writing, Saudi female activist Israa Al Ghomgham, in detention since December 2015, is waiting to be judged, together with four other (male) activists. After an international campaign against her death sentence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 206–208.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Tara Stephan Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture . Eve Krakowski . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2018 . 350 pages. isbn 9780691174983 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
... between the state and female characters in the novel lead to the systematic disabling and poisoning of the women’s bodies, ultimately corrupting their romantic relationships and violating their bodies. This intimate destruction mirrors the crumbling city, wherein the remnants of war and environmental...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Dongxin Zou Abstract Sent by the Chinese government on medical missions, Chinese female ob-gyns have served in rural and small-town public hospitals in Algeria and Morocco for more than fifty years. Yet little is known about the medical encounters or how the ob-gyns perceived patients...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ellen Gruenbaum Sondra Hale’s self-imposed thirty years of silence on female circumcision—broken in 1994 for her Ufahamu article and discussed in her chapter for Obioma Nnaemeka’s Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge (Praeger, 2005)—was grounded in her critique of the “residuals...
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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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 168–172.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... Figure 3. Therapy room Figure 3. Therapy room In terms of religion, we have a female Quran reciter from the Noble Quran and Sunnah Establishment. The female reciter teaches them to memorize parts of the Quran. Some of them come here and are illiterate, they do not know how to read; they have...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... The present article locates nurses’ history at the nexus of the trajectories of women’s imperial agency, mobility, and work during the interwar years, offering an additional way to interpret them within the colonial context. Most studies of European women in the colonies focus on female settlers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
...David Stenner Abstract A public debate about the social status of women accompanied the emergence of mass politics in Morocco after World War II. The Arabic-language press argued that true sovereignty required the liberation of the kingdom’s female citizens from the shackles of tradition. Taking...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Kristina Richardson The organization of the book presumes a historical progression toward the present moment, when Arab authors are beginning to construct their female disabled characters as nuanced subjects, but Hamdar does not present this moment as a Fukuyaman end of history. Rather, she...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 133–138.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Karen G. Ruffle The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India , Abbas Shemeem Burney . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2002 . Pp. xxx + 209 . $45.00 Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005...
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in “Why Don’t You Go to Nursing School?”: Hebrew University Medical School as a Gendered Experience, 1950–1970
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 1. Total Hebrew University Medical School graduates compared to female graduates, 1952–79. Hebrew University Archives, graduation ceremony, 1952–79. The year 1971 is missing from the archival data.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Liina Mustonen Abstract This article looks at how specific gendered practices and ideas about female bodies were instrumentalized in the struggle for political authority during Egypt’s transitional period between 2011 and 2013. It argues that in the aftermath of the uprising, when Islamists won...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Cyrus Schayegh This article analyzes one of the first book-length Iranian treatises on female criminality, Qadisih Hijāzi’s Barrisi-yi jarā’im-i zan dar Irān (1962), to show how in the eyes of contemporary Iranian cultural critics and social scientists, female criminality was prefigured by gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Catherine Sawers This article explores the gendered subtext of film criticism that both praises and vilifies Gillo Pontecorvo’s Bataille d’Alger . The female characters play a prominent role in the film’s action, and, in particular, the women’s roles underscore the film’s ideological emphasis...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
...David Simonowitz In the Islamic world, an important body of biographical material traces the chains of transmission of calligraphic instruction over many centuries. Although there is comparatively little documentation on women who have practiced calligraphy, scattered references do mention female...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Hagar Salamon; Esther Juhasz In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tunisian Jewish female body was subjected to a dramatic fattening process in preparation for marriage. Immediately following the girl’s engagement, her body became the focus of an intense transformative regimen aimed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 10815497.
Published: 30 October 2023
... with a phenomenological perception of pain and pleasure in the female body as a means of self-expression. For her, the female body can be portrayed via indirection and insinuation through which bodily dys-appearance (pain) and eu-appearance (pleasure) are invoked. Resonating with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 58–90.
Published: 01 November 2010
... internal debates about the representation of the female body and concepts of modesty. Central to this is the problem of what Muslim looks like, or what looks Muslim. The challenges faced by Muslim style intermediaries in staging a dressed body recognizable to readers as Muslim parallel those faced...
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