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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 216–218.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Katja Žvan Elliott Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Morocco and Hollywood: The Negated Sex . Osire Glacier . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 . ix + 193 pages. isbn 9783319532851. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Osire...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 258–260.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Sarah Irving Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity, and Family during the Second Intifada . Muhanna Aitemad . Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . 222 pages. isbn 9781409454533 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 As Nicola Pratt...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a messianic femininity that emphasizes maternal duties and women’s redemptive power in Judaism while challenging male religious authorities and religious law in other areas. Activists define themselves as guardians of domestic space and the House of God (the future Third Temple) and redeemers of the Jewish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 107–111.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Hülya Adak Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 This essay examines three works by women writers, Sevgi Soysal, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Perihan Mağden, who experiment with feminine writing ( l’écriture féminine ) in Turkish literature and explore...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 374–378.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and feminine cycles as part of an open invitation to artists to work on birthing, menstruation, miscarriage, abortion, the biological clock, and menopause. In response, some artists proposed new works, while others dug into their archives to offer pieces not previously exhibited. The format of the exhibition...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 427–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., or participants in formal politics. Käser focuses on the trajectories of women, their motivations, and their experiences to understand and explicate the emergence of “militant femininities” in the type of liberation movements to which the PKK belongs. She reassesses the role of violence in this specific...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 July 2016
... by offering alternative models for young girls. In Framing Muslims Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin ( 2011 , 182) write that Islamic dolls and Barbie dolls are instances of the same marketing ideologies: both “operate to define available spaces for Western and Muslim femininities.” Positioned as an alternative...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Claudia Liebelt Abstract Based on research in Istanbul in 2013–14, the article describes a changing urban geography of beauty, which has multiple repercussions on women’s spatialized notions of femininity, intimate bodily grooming, and aesthetics. Beauty salons in two neighborhoods typically placed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Aziza Khazzoom Abstract In Israel, Middle Eastern women are read as more “traditional” than European women. Yet life-story interviews conducted for this article reveal that elderly Polish Jewish women self-present as traditionally feminine—emphasizing home-centeredness, passivity, modesty, self...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., capitalism, and gender. In particular, the focus on the intimate in Zaat reveals how political projects are depicted in the domestic sphere through the lens of women’s work. The article explores two themes: one, the increasing financial pressure and its effects on constructs of masculinity and femininity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
Published: 01 July 2007
... women, about themselves, and about their conception of ideal manhood. I argue that overt discussions of masculinity ran parallel to discussions of femininity. They might not have dominated the cultural scene like the debates on “the woman question,” but they are revealing of the complexities of gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 91–117.
Published: 01 November 2010
... into value and vice versa by deploying the image of the pious feminine to incite consumer desire while denying accusations that this is simply capitalism with a religious face. Based on research and interviews with the editorial staff of one Islamic fashion magazine, NooR, this article traces how Indonesia’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 July 2015
... analysis, I closely examine the borderline space between the ideals of beautification and concealment and how women construct their fashionable veiling in it. By reading the women’s deployment of these ideals against their juristic connotations, I underscore the significance of the veiled Muslim femininity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575457.
Published: 10 January 2025
... of female authority, which complicate our understanding of his views on masculinity and femininity, piety, and physical and spiritual health. The moments when Ibn al-Ḥājj considers women in positions of power reveal the variety of techniques he employs to enforce a proper gender hierarchy in which men have...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
... spectatorship femininity gender and sexual nonnormativity This article uses two popular Golden Era belly-dance films to argue that mainstream film in Egypt simultaneously enabled and disciplined nonnormative gendered and sexual behavior, specifically between women. Drawing on queer-of-color critique, I...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 340–342.
Published: 01 November 2015
... for Saudi women that they could not have in heterosocial settings. In these spaces women from different family, class, and social backgrounds—who normally would not have a chance to meet each other—interact and negotiate the parameters of femininity and what it means to be a “Saudi woman.” Le Renard...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 139–142.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Qadiri and Khalid al Gharaballi’s digital photographs from
Fthe series WaWa (2011) engage with gendered and sexual representa-
tions of femininity and queerness with reference to the local, namely,
Kuwait, as well as the regional, that is, the Arab Gulf and the Arab world
at large. In both...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 242–244.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Studies 2024 Liora Hendelman-Baavur, in Creating the Modern Iranian Woman , explores the construction of femininities in late Pahlavi Iran through an analysis of women’s weekly magazines. In a bid to address the relative absence of scholarly interest in popular culture studies of the Pahlavi period...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
... become a universal feminine icon,” says Weisberger (interview with the artist). 8 This feminist strategy can be seen in the works of other artists (e.g., Eleanor Antin and Hannah Wilke) who create lacking or deformed bodies—presenting the female body through a feminine and subjective experience...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 455–459.
Published: 01 November 2016
... as a quest, the book is actually a celebration: Mernissi offers Scheherazade the storyteller as the model of active (Muslim) feminine self-determination. Not for her the tortuously self-denying alienation of idealized Western femininity! After all, Scheherazade successfully challenged arbitrary masculine...
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