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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 75–98.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Ashraf Zahedi This article examines the history of the veil and its changing social meanings in Iran. Embedded in the meaning of the veil is the erotic meaning of female hair. The symbiotic relations of the “cover” (the veil) and the “covered” (female hair) are central to this history. Iranian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 199–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in their extremity and significance. While Aisha temporarily acts out her internal distress and communicates her discontent by cutting off her hair, Hosna’s suicide embodies a feminist agenda based on self-esteem and resistance and threatens the sovereignty of the whole patriarchal structure. This is the first...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 267–290.
Published: 01 November 2023
... series Veil Flight ( Vole voile , 2007), which contests the sexualization and subsequent covering of female hair by using hair to alternately cover and reveal the female body. A motif of eyes raises further questions about the female body’s exposure and invokes surveillance. Doubling, surveillance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
... boulevard, La Grande Rue de Pera, later renamed İstiklal Street, and its modern Taksim Square, assumed a central role as a “European” and cosmopolitan secular space of entertainment and commerce. There non-Muslim Istanbulites opened the first women’s hair and beauty salons in the early republican era. Until...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., 27; Fatat al-ghad , April 1943, 2. Some Lauriol sketches have a woman’s picture attached to a sketched body. There was more than one Lauriol girl. One early ad has a Lauriol male with dark hair, holding a towel. His features are neither particularly Western nor Middle Eastern. The advertisement...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that focuses on the perceived oppression of Islam to one that highlights the violence of the secular state. Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Faiza Ambah veiling secularism feminism Muslim women My hair is neither sacred nor cheap, Neither the cause...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 430–432.
Published: 01 November 2019
... their kohl eyes, hair like poetry in rising motion like flame. They’re like “Her Story Is” on the Arabian Sea at twilight in December, without seat belts at full speed to the souk —yes, like that twilit photo in Thaira’s palette, my lips like brick, and we’re grinning on a rickety wooden adventure...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., Australia,
India, China, Japan, and South Africa, emerged in the interwar period.
She was a “glocal” figure meant to whet the consuming appetites of elite
and upper-middle-class women.1 She shared the Modern Girl’s essential
features of bobbed hair, smiling face, painted lips...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 March 2009
... new things for sale in the bazaar—strange, forbidden things:
books, condoms, hair dryers. Now, packages of hair dye with scantily
clad Swedish models adorn shop windows” (di Giovanni 2002, 254). She
further illustrates this uncovering of products, hair, and bodies through
human...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
... a feminist position contradicting patriarchal judgment of these elements as despised. Three prominent visual components can be seen in these works: the distorted, defective body; the spiky, standing-on-end hair; and the broad mouth with sharp teeth. These images lack softness, roundness, and volume...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... No number of photographs I’d seen on book covers could have prepared me for the shock of her presence. The shoulder-length white halo of hair, dazzling, daring the audience with its wildly obscene purity framing a wheatberry-complexioned face, its darkness accentuated by the contrasting hair...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... No sectarian connotation is apparent in this account. Rather, Hussein decries nonnormative masculinities as against Islam and the Iraqi nation: The rabble-rousers do not know these notions [of tribal loyalty to the dictator]. Those who dye their hair in green and red do not know these meanings...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 362.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and erasures of petroleum imperialism, reminding us to consider the present through a genealogical lens. Dressed in the modern urban attire of the period, hair coiffed and eyes gazing candidly at the camera, the family members wear expressions from excitement to confusion. The teenaged Fahmi Basrawi sits...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that gorgeous head of white hair. I always could find you in a crowd and I was always looking. I had already read your many words about liberating ourselves. I loved that you never told me to be careful. Our dinner in Cairo was in your beautiful apartment. I was there to speak about the first...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 54–80.
Published: 01 March 2013
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Iqbal Siddiqui (2001, 59 – 61) accordingly writes of the permissibility of
the man to gaze at the woman prior to marriage, to see if she pleases
him. The prolific Iranian cleric Murtaza Mutahhari, too, encourages the
suitor to examine the face, hair, and shape of a prospective wife...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and popular visual culture, the women in Sirry’s paintings range from peasants to urban working-class women to stylish elite women. In the Classroom depicts a young, ochre-skinned teacher with short, wavy hair in a collared pink dress. Her features are bold and simplified, and her gaze directly confronts...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
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feminine, and identifiable as Muslim.14 In mixed public spaces, women
should be covered from head to toe (including the eyes) by wearing an
‘abaya that is called “on the head” (as opposed to the ‘abaya “on the
shoulder In women-only public spaces, women do not have to cover
their hair...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 117–123.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., and my sister and I had to wait outside in the playroom while my mother talked to the police. I looked outside through the window, and it was pitch black again . Here I started my new life as a war refugee, marked by my black hair and brown skin among the tall blond kids in my class. This is my identity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 274–276.
Published: 01 July 2021
... postures bring to mind images of superheroes in comic books, standing in formation confronting a common enemy. The sunglasses-like masks show their eyes without irises, almost like robots. Other common features such as red lips and short black hair make them appear as variations of the same body and recall...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 71–97.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of bears often includes: “hairy
bodies and facial hair; some are heavy-set; some project an image of
working-class masculinity in their grooming and appearance…. Some
bears place importance on presenting a hypermasculine image; some
may shun interaction with men who display effeminate style.”3...
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