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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., the article centers Syrian American women within processes of working-class formation and concludes that labor history of the interwar mahjar requires focus on spaces of social reproduction beyond the factory floor. I wish to thank several colleagues who offered me timely, significant feedback on this work...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and reflects their middle-class tastes and modes of distinction while serving their participation in gay men’s community formation. Conversely, lower-class and traditional middle-class gay men perform a family guy masculinity in an effort to be viewed as “normal” and to participate in their heterosexual family...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 119–122.
Published: 01 July 2012
... that emanate from such a vision requires the kind of historical
understanding Ahmed offers us in this timely and engaging book.
Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject
Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940
Wilson Chacko Jacob. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2011...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2012
... with a brief review of recent Egyptian economic history, focusing on metaphorical colonization and the policing of gender and sexuality. Also important for contextualizing of this study is a review of identity formation and national identity, as well as of recent issues surrounding censorship. In order...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 40–61.
Published: 01 November 2014
... by great numbers of women, seek new language, modes of organizing, and formations. Presenting the new insurrections as not only anti-statism, anti-authoritarian, and non-hierarchal, but also fragmentary, uncertain, incomplete, and ongoing, I ground my ideas with examples from the various insurrections...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 87–108.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 1979 establishment and 2009, this paper analyzes the development of women-only parks as a major site of gender segregation. Offering a thorough account of the formation of the first women-only park in Tehran—the Mothers’ Paradise—I contend that conceiving of gender segregation as a state project...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Wisam Khalid Abdul-Jabbar Abstract This article explores Zainab Salbi’s autobiography, Between Two Worlds ( 2005 ), using a Lacanian analysis. The Lacanian reading of the early Mirror Stage of ego formation can be extended to better understand Salbi’s narration of her childhood and how this world...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 39–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... Based on Mahtab’s story and my ethnographic work with some of the surviving former women inmates, this paper engages with Sigmund Freud’s notions of survival, mourning, and melancholia in light of their intertwined relationship to the re-formation of the subject. I argue for the centrality of mourning...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 56–88.
Published: 01 July 2011
... or engage in discourse on the Question of Palestine. Despite historical changes, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi distinction is a racialized formation so resilient it manages to sustain itself through challenges rather than remain a frozen dichotomy. Smadar Lavie specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and women. While most feminist scholarship dealing with states formation in the Arab context attributes its gendered nature to dictatorship, patriarchy, and religion, there is no debate about the development of states and their relation to militarism and masculinism. This construction of militarized...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to be studied. The articles examine microlevel contact zones, in which women’s agency shaped and was shaped by colonial and postcolonial encounters, decolonization, and the formation of national professions. They reveal tensions within the medical sphere, between men and women, foreign and local, colonizer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 83–85.
Published: 01 July 2009
... identities.
Nadine Naber’s Introduction provides a wonderful framing for the
collection by foregrounding the complexities of Arab American racial
formation as a critical site of inquiry. Carefully locating the collection
within competing discourses about race, racial classifi cation, racial...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 106–109.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of the period, with imagined and real consequences. Kholoussy
approaches the marriage crisis as representing a reiteration of norms
that offer an Egyptian genealogy of gender and sexuality as modern
formations of power.
Her study begins in 1898, the year in which the “reorganized...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
.../coloniality-conscious ways to reframe
and render legible emergent formations and patterns that are rising up
to challenge, reappropriate, or humanize security-state and police-state
governance forms. These governance forms, which I group under the
term “human security states” (Amar 2011b), emerged...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 116–119.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Ahmed offers us in this timely and engaging book.
Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject
Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940
Wilson Chacko Jacob. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2011.
440 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4674-6.
Nadia...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 235–237.
Published: 01 July 2015
... independent formations work for women’s equality in public and private life through writing, organizing, lobbying, and/or protesting. Such groups take different forms and have varying perspectives on how they define and pursue social change agendas. They face diverse challenges shaped by intersecting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 356–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and novels to reconstruct self-narratives of “efendication.” Ryzova attends to questions of generational solidarity, exploring two disciplinary apparatuses that shaped the formation of the effendiyya—the traditional patriarchal family and the modern school—and the space that was opened up between them...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2008
... between the
gendered body and processes of subject formation. Instead, she argues,
agency may be thought of not necessarily in secular terms of self-fulfi ll-
ment and self-empowerment, but also in religious terms of virtue, fear,
and hope. Th us, it requires a diff erent conceptualization...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 349.
Published: 01 November 2015
... for fully seeing, whether one looks from the inside out or from the outside in. It offers the illusion of wholeness, which is often mapped onto women’s bodies. This volume wraps up a three-issue initiative in which authors affiliated with autonomous “feminist formations” throughout the region discussed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 373–376.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and ambiguities of whiteness (180). How gender and sexuality intersect with ethnic and racial formations is most evident in how Iranianness is embodied at specific borders and in particular nations when young Iranians are in transit to and from their homeland. Maghbouleh also draws attention to how generational...
