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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Carolina Bracco Abstract The appearance of the character of a femme fatale in Egyptian cinema in the mid-1950s is deeply intertwined with the new social and moral imprint made by the Nasserist regime. At a time when women’s participation in the public sphere was regulated, the portrayal of the evil...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and his mistress, Hana, we are introduced to two Hanas: the manipulative femme fatale and the innocent self-sacrificing victim. The film makes us question the quick judgments and binary structure that puts a woman in one category or the other. Unfortunately, Sound and Fury , like many Iranian films...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in Bataille
d’Alger are definitively not the over-sexualized femmes fatales of action
films or slick political thrillers. Peter Matthews (2004) explains that the
female characters defy the vampy Hollywood stereotype of women com-
batants: “Masquerading as loose-living Europeans, carrying...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
Published: 01 July 2006
... published since the 1980s
by commercial and feminist magazines. In the mid-1990s, journalists
from Femmes du Maroc and Citadine extended a practice initiated in the
mid-1980s by Thamania Mars (March 8), an early feminist periodical
published by the Union of Feminist Action (Skalli 2006...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... médicale des femmes indigènes en Algérie . Montpellier : Delord-Boehm et Martial . Ageron Charles-Robert . 1968 . Les Algériens musulmans et la France (1871–1919) . 2 vols. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France . Ageron Charles-Robert . 1991 . Modern Algeria: A History from...
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Engendering or Endangering Politics in Algeria? Salima Ghezali, Louisa Hanoune and Khalida Messaoudi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 60–85.
Published: 01 July 2006
... names like
Serkhat en-Nissa (Women’s Scream”) and Voix de Femmes (Women’s
Voices). In so doing, they have challenged a traditional norm that con-
siders a woman’s voice as awra (taboo) and relocated their claims on the
outside world, or, man’s world. Their representatives often have taken
parts...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the glamorous and immaculately dressed femmes fatales all over TV. She represents a very wide range of Egyptian females: oppressed, frustrated and often underestimated. As a child, she suffers the trauma of female genital mutilation (FGM); as a teenager, she has to argue with her parents to [ sic ] they allow...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 80–97.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of Women’s Rights in Islam . Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley . Mernissi Fatima . 1995 . Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood . New York: Basic. Available in French as Rêves de femmes: Une enfance au harem, translated by Richetin Claudine . Paris : Michel , 1998 . al-Rawi...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 157–176.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the new Armenian woman. What brought about the fatal confusion was the new woman’s free will to make decisions regarding her life, choose her husband, and receive an education. Hence on the mainstream male-oriented critical front her novels became the main target of criticism of detractors who swarmed...
