...Gili Hammer Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 My dissertation research focuses on blind women’s gender identity and the cultural representations of sight and blindness in the Israeli public sphere. Arguing for the ways blindness as a social, cultural...

... . Wadud Amina . 2006 . Inside the Gender Jihad . Oxford : Oxford Oneworld . Peaceful Families offers a rich empirical and theoretical account of an undertold story within Muslim communities and scholarship of Islam. Through it Hammer revitalizes several important debates in our field...

... publications draw on critical race theory and Black studies, with potentially transformative possibilities for thinking through the gendered and racialized politics of “being Muslim” in the context of Euro-American secular modernity (Gibson and Karim 2014 ; Hammer 2012 ; Muhammad 2020 ; Taylor 2017...

... . Waco, TX : Baylor University Press . Haddad Y. Yazbeck , Smith Jane I. , and Moore Kathleen M. 2006 . Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today . New York : Oxford University Press . Hammer Juliane . 2005 . Palestinians Born in Exile...

.... The Artists’ In(ter)vention: Sudanese and the Colonial Frame.   Paper for Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago,   December 3-6, 1998. Notes on Feminist Theory and Art—Visualizing Our Gender, Race,   and Class Identities. Lecture for Dialogues on Art, UCLA Armand   Hammer Museum...

.... This type of localist or nationalist politics is not unique to Kurd- istan, however, and has been expressed in other contexts, for example in Palestine (Hammer 2005). Another form of interaction between dias- pora and homeland is shaped by globalization of the capitalist or imperi- alist...

... in the paid labor force changed real wom- en’s lives concretely and profoundly, aff ording them many more choices than before (Shissler 2004). In the 1920s and early 1930s, when these changes were being con- ceived and promoted and the nature of new republican womanhood was being hammered out...

... to the war and has thereby actively colluded in something that may lead to his death. Her unexpected consciousness is rendered and underlined by a form of textual fragmentation that bestows a new prosodic quality to the flow of her thoughts, imitating the blows of a hammer or a round of gunshots. Each...

... ( 1880 , 1881 , 1926 ) wrote three articles that hammered at the single and pressing issue of women’s paid employment and economic conditions. 22 Referring in the first article to the rights of education via opening schools, which was bestowed on them by the Ottoman Sublime Porte, Dussap underlines...

... STUDIES  7:1 Wednesday afternoon, a day before she leaves the house, before she arrives the mother of Shoshana arrived [the day of the marriage ceremony] with a nail and a hammer. She came into the bedroom and banged the nail in. [It’s a sign] that she’s stuck here...