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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 329–336.
Published: 01 July 2022
... things were done in Palestine. One relative threatened to go over my head and make an agreement with my brothers. “Islamically, your share is not as significant as you think. Here the girl gets half of what her brother gets,” he said with a smirk. “And you have three brothers.” Throughout the Arab...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 July 2016
... in a pink minidress with the following text warning of the enemies of Islam: “A strange request. A little girl asks her mother: Mother, I want jeans, a low-cut shirt, and a swimsuit like Barbie. . . . Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Modern Egyptian Girl was no different from her sisters worldwide. She appeared in the postwar period and was associated with a variety of commodities. Depicted as white and Europeanized, her Egyptian incarnation coincided with the emergence of similar political iconography. The male elite desired...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and the potentials of female contribution to society. But they also took it further to challenge patriarchal authority: daughters who discussed with their fathers and organized political campaigns, athletes who succeeded in a domain dominated by French men, and Girl Guides who were supposed to go to battle like...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 10. Fadia Basrawi symbolically bridges divides as a Saudi Arabian Girl Scout. This photograph of young Fadia reading the Scout’s Pledge appeared in a story in the April 1961 issue of Aramco World . Photograph by Fahmi Basrawi.
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in An Inner Voice Liberated: Feminist Reading of Lilian Weisberger’s Artwork
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 7. Lilian Weisberger. Right: Girl Giving the Finger , 2015. Oil pastels, acrylic, and three-dimensional paint on medium-density fiberboard, 80 × 40 × 2 cm. Left, top: Super-Girl , 2015. Plywood, acrylic, oil pastels, three-dimensional paint, paper, glue, and rubber gloves, 98 × 98 × 1
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in From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 5. A young girl holds a “white book” pamphlet of the writings of Che Guevara in one hand and a carnation in the other. Published in Tehran Mosavvar , January 19, 1979 [29 Dey 1357]. Siagzar Berelian Collection, Box 12, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
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in From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 10. A young girl holds a rifle with a carnation in the muzzle. Poster for “Mobilization Week,” late 1979. Middle Eastern Posters Collection, University of Chicago, Box 3, No. 60.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi This article sketches a history of Iran’s early girls’ school movement and examines its origins, goals, curricular content, and relationship to the state. It revises the tendency in the existing scholarship on modern education and reform to credit the Pahlavi state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 MARILYN BOOTH 149
“THE MUSLIM WOMAN”
AS CELEBRITY AUTHOR AND THE
POLITICS OF TRANSLATING ARABIC:
Girls of Riyadh Go on the Road...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 134–137.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Nathan P. Devir Zamir Michal . Tel-Aviv : Xargol , 2005 . 191 pp. Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 134 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
Sfinat habanot [The Ship of Girls]
Michal Zamir. Tel-Aviv: Xargol...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... discrimination (against Mizrahim in general and against Mizrahi girls in particular) presents a special case of exclusionary social practices in the context of the Middle East. It owes its motivating and legitimizing force to social constructions exhibiting a unique reproduction of the dichotomy between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 26–50.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and France with non-governmental organization workers and village girls, it demonstrates how humanitarian work is rendered meaningful by specific actors, its effects coexisting alongside, rather than supplanting, other forms of sociality. In tracing the ways in which a youth habitus based on rights is “made...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 64–95.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Figure 5. A young girl holds a “white book” pamphlet of the writings of Che Guevara in one hand and a carnation in the other. Published in Tehran Mosavvar , January 19, 1979 [29 Dey 1357]. Siagzar Berelian Collection, Box 12, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. ...
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in The Female Rehabilitation Home in Sharjah: Notes from the Field
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 4. Girl’s bedroom
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in Beauty Standards in Egypt: Popular Consumer Culture and the Representation of Women
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 4. “Husband 1: All the girls on the beach are beautiful . . . so where are the ugly ones? Husband 2: We married them!” Akhir saʾa , May 7, 1947, 17.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Figure 7. Lilian Weisberger. Right: Girl Giving the Finger , 2015. Oil pastels, acrylic, and three-dimensional paint on medium-density fiberboard, 80 × 40 × 2 cm. Left, top: Super-Girl , 2015. Plywood, acrylic, oil pastels, three-dimensional paint, paper, glue, and rubber gloves, 98 × 98 × 1...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Ray Jureidini From a series of interviews with Lebanese middle- and upper-class women in their latter years, the paper traces an oral history of domestic service in Lebanon over the past century. The interviews reveal various periods when women and girls were recruited from the local village poor...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
Published: 01 November 2006
... between literary work and critical social history, producing what we may term counterhistories of the Lebanese Civil War and the Partition of India. In both of these novels, a girl upon the verge of sexual maturation sees the eruption of violence in the society around her to be fundamentally analogous...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... examine just a few of the many sites where “Muslim women’s rights” are differentially in play: in Egyptian and Palestinian women’s NGOs as well as in rural villages where ordinary women and girls live their lives at the intersection of national media and local institutions. Lila Abu-Lughod is Joseph...
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