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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 53–82.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Ruth Barzilai-Lumbroso This paper discusses the study of Ottoman dynastic history through women’s writings, such as harem women’s personal letter correspondence, women’s harem memoirs and recollections, and foreign women travelers’ accounts, published in popular historical magazines in Turkey...
View articletitled, Turkish Men and the <span class="search-highlight">History</span> of Ottoman Women: Studying the <span class="search-highlight">History</span> of the Ottoman Dynasty’s Private Sphere through Women’s Writings
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 94–97.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Schirin Amir-Moazami The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History, and Ideology , Zayzafoon Lamia Ben Youssef . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2005 . Pp. xii, 213 . ISBN 0-739-10962-6 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 94...
View articletitled, The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, and Ideology by Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Julia Clancy-Smith “ Gendering the History of Libya: Transnational and Feminist Approaches ”, “ Centre and Periphery: Variation in Gendered Space among Libyan Jews ,” Simon Rachel “ Reimagining Colony and Metropole: Images of Italy and Libya during the Italo...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 213–216.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies , lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu . Seçil Yılmaz and Susanna Ferguson , Ottoman History Podcast , www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com . Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 As security concerns and border restrictions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 326–336.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., where I was invited to share this work in May 2016. In Zaatari’s work, queerness functions as an optic through which to access and imagine past histories of the region. Indeed, I argue that Zaatari’s excavation of El Madani’s work offers an important critique of conventional area studies...
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View articletitled, Queer Visual Excavations: Akram Zaatari, Hashem El Madani, and the Reframing of <span class="search-highlight">History</span> in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Rosemary Sayigh This paper examines representations of “self” embodied in the life histories of women members of a Palestinian refugee camp community in Lebanon. Stereotypes of “self” are inherently ambivalent (Guttman 1988) as sites of both subjection and resistance. This ambivalence is strongly...
View articletitled, Product and Producer of Palestinian <span class="search-highlight">History</span>: Stereotypes of “Self” in Camp Women’s Life Stories
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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 (2019) 15 (2): 219–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Mehammed Amadeus Mack Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History . Kadji Amin . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 272 pages. isbn 9780822368892. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The story of Jean...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 395–397.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the Ottoman poets in bibliographical dictionaries, which contributed to “the production of the male poet and his lesser counterpart: the woman poet” (43). Focusing on the celebrated woman poet Mihrî Hatun (ca. 1460–1515), this book is a timely addition to early modern Ottoman literary history, which...
View articletitled, Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual <span class="search-highlight">History</span>
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 213–226.
Published: 01 July 2020
... through the parliamentary debates around this story. But when you read histories of the Constitutional Revolution, they virtually fade out of narratives. In the histories that are closer to the time, sometimes they are discussed. But as you go further and further away from that period, occasionally...
View articletitled, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Writing <span class="search-highlight">History</span> in the Middle East: Interview with Afsaneh Najmabadi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 492–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Gülşah Şenkol Torunoğlu Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Women’s and gender history began to move in a comparative direction during the late 1990s, opening up new possibilities in scholarship about Western and non-Western contexts alike. Sonya Michel...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 485–491.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ” (“The Women’s Press and the Foundation of a New Discourse about Women”). In Mubādarāt nisāʾiyya (Women’s Initiatives) , edited by Belarbi Aicha , 51 – 69 . Casablanca : Le Fennec . Baker Alison . 1998 . Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women . Albany : State University...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 423–426.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Ozlem Goner [email protected] The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice . Dilar Dirik . London : Pluto , 2022 . 384 pages. isbn 9780745341941. Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 With careful attention...
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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. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 diaspora...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 376–378.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Joy Saade [email protected] Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine Livia Wick Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2023 200 pages. isbn 9780815637882 Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Sumud...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 453–457.
Published: 01 November 2017
... were subject to her criticism. She emphasized the contradictions and debates within these projects as generative of what she called “renewed histories of the future” (Harlow 1996 , 10). Harlow focused on the possibility of producing narratives that challenge conditions of domination and oppression...
View articletitled, Barbara Harlow and the Necessity of “Renewed <span class="search-highlight">Histories</span> of the Future”: In Memoriam (1948–2017)
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 148–150.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Sertaç Sehlikoglu Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces , Booth Marilyn , ed. Durham; London : Duke University Press , 2010 . 416 pages. ISBN 978-0-8223-4869-6 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 148 mn Journal of Middle East...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Jew walking through Tel Aviv is not a figure in the past. He is carrying his history with him and acting it out. So is the Algerian Jew. Margaret Mead: And so is the Yemenite. Baldwin: All of them. It is not yesterday’s history. It is now. —James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, A Rap on Race...
View articletitled, “Not a Figure in the Past”: Zionist Imperial Whiteness, the Iraqi Communist Party, and Their Reverberating <span class="search-highlight">Histories</span> of Race and Gender, 1941–1951
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Iris Gilad [email protected] Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today . Ceren Özpınar and Mary Kelly , eds. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press , 2020 . xviii + 201 pages. isbn...
View articletitled, Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art <span class="search-highlight">Histories</span> from the Middle East and North Africa Today
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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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