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Bad Dolls/Reappropriating Badness: Performing the Feminine with Reference to Arab Muslim Dolls and Tiqqun’s Young-Girl

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Rima Dunn, Adam George Dunn
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 275–283.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3507738
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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Marketing the Modern Egyptian Girl: Whitewashing Soap and Clothes from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1936

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Mona Russell
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2010.6.3.19
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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Girl Guides, Athletes, and Educators: Women and the National Body in Late Colonial Algeria

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Jakob Krais
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490981
Published: 01 July 2019
...–117; Wadowiec 2013 ). This article focuses less on colonial policies and French feminist activities than on the debate about the role of women in Algerian Muslim society and new female practices related to the body. 3 I look specifically at the Muslim Algerian Girl Guide movement and female...
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A Gendered Return: Reflections of a Bint Qawiyyeh bila Latafa (Strong-Willed Girl without Gentleness)

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Rasmieyh R. Abdelnabi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 329–336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9768011
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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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.

Fadia Basrawi symbolically bridges divides as a Saudi Arabian Girl Scout. T...

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in Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
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. More
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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 cm. Left, bottom: What a Wonderful World, 2015. Cardboard, oil pastels, panda crayons, acrylic, and three-dimensional paint, 135 × 77 × 1 cm.

Lilian Weisberger. Right: Girl Giving the Finger , 2015. Oil pastels, acry...

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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 More
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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.

A young girl holds a “white book” pamphlet of the writings of Che Guevara i...

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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. More
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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.

A young girl holds a rifle with a carnation in the muzzle. Poster for “Mobi...

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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. More
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Sfinat Habanot [The Ship of Girls]

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Nathan P. Devir
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 134–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2006-1008
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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The Wavering Luck of Girls: Gender and Pre-Vocational Education in Israel

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Yossi Yonah, Ishak Saporta
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.3.71
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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Saving Egypt’s Village Girls: Humanity, Rights, and Gendered Vulnerability in a Global Youth Initiative

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Rania Kassab Sweis
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 26–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.26
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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Origins of Iran’s Modern Girls’ Schools: From Private/National to Public/State

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Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.3.58
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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“The Muslim Woman” as Celebrity Author and the Politics of Translating Arabic: Girls of Riyadh Go on the Road

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Marilyn Booth
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2010.6.3.149
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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From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution

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Arielle Gordon
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 64–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790238
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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Astronomy for Girls: Pedagogy and the Gendering of Science in Late Ottoman Beirut

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Susanna Ferguson
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 291–316.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815469
Published: 01 November 2023
...Susanna Ferguson Abstract In 1874–75 American Protestant missionaries in Beirut published two astronomy textbooks in Arabic. While male students at the Syrian Protestant College studied Cornelius Van Dyck’s Foundations of Astronomy , girls at secondary schools—the highest level of female education...
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Figure 4. Girl’s bedroom

Girl’s bedroom

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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
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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.

“Husband 1: All the girls on the beach are beautiful . . . so where are the...

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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. More
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Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān

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Maryam Zehtabi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 335–349.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11412078
Published: 01 November 2024
...Maryam Zehtabi Abstract Child marriage, the union between a child below the age of consent and a spouse who is the same age or older, remains a prevalent practice in Iran. Often these marriages involve young girls betrothed to much older men as a result of economic arrangements between the girl’s...
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An Inner Voice Liberated: Feminist Reading of Lilian Weisberger’s Artwork

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Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790210
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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Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India

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Kamran Rastegar
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.3.22
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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