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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 188–191.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Jeffrey Jurgens Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin , Ewing Katherine Pratt . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2008 . Pp. xii, 282 . ISBN 978-0-8047-5900-7 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 188 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST...
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in Exercising in Comfort: Islamicate Culture of Mahremiyet in Everyday Istanbul
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Published: 01 July 2016
Figure 2. Women using outdoor gym equipment in Cumhuriyet Park. Faces are not exposed to honor their request. Photo: Sertaç Sehlikoglu
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 12–30.
Published: 01 November 2008
... shows how Sertel analytically linked women’s economic dependence with ideologies of sexual honor that limited and controlled access to women’s sexuality. This led her to identify the origins of prostitution as economic, to oppose the licensing of brothels and the regulation of prostitutes by the state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
... this resistance they honor commitments to women’s rights. When they fear more domestic opposition they renege. This article argues that Arab regimes are less likely to resist domestic opposition to women’s rights when US military presence increases in the region. The authors test the argument using cross-national...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2007
... for economic independence, challenging the very concept of namus (honor), and at times calling into question the value of the institution of marriage. The column often appeared in proximity to reports of youth suicides. Thus the column and its context allow us to examine the social tensions produced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
... dimension in the administration of House of Obedience. Aspects concerning the wider sociopolitical context are crucial, notably the preeminence of the notion of family honor ( sharaf ), the mutually constitutive relation between the shari‘a court and the community, and the specificities of court cases...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2011
... with group members now living in Israel. The meeting of these voices called for a multidimensional examination of central themes including the ideal female body, its boundaries, and transgressions of those boundaries; mechanisms of control; and the complex relationships between honor and shame and between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 96–107.
Published: 01 November 2005
... genital mutilation, and honor killings? This brief
historical report will discuss key events leading to this transformation and
its significance in the creation of a new international consensus on women’s
human rights.
AI based its work on the 1948 United Nations Universal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
... (ranging from the veil to the honor crime) that have been “deployed in current political projects of destructive warfare, chilling xenophobia, and lucrative humanitarianism” (226). The new framework she proposes is one based on “careful analysis, critical self-reflection, and constant recognition of our...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 224–226.
Published: 01 July 2015
... discussion of the discourse of honor and shame in the Middle East reproduces male and female binaries rather than questioning whether and how gender intersects with class, sect, and other social divisions in ways that complicate the production of masculinity and femininity. Moreover, the absence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 103–105.
Published: 01 November 2007
... information to remember and memorialize the
destruction of men and women during persecution and war (Kurdistan
Daloy); the horrors of honor killings in Kurdistan as a result of war (Jula
Haji); the prevalence of honor killings abroad in countries such as Swe-
den (Seyran Duran...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 128–129.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... They pressured us through isolation and by smearing our reputation. During the same period, women were murdered in the name of honor, and their bodies were disrespectfully buried in anonymous pauper’s graves. This also has been overcome, since KAMER fights against murders in the name of honor and this treatment...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2014
... that perceive the enhancement of women’s rights as
a zero-sum game.
Moreover, examining the stated goals of the reformed law manifests
a multitude of veiled connotations. Dignity has a compound meaning of
honor and respect, of which particularly the former has been a constant
research topic among...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Women’s
Congresses (NNS 2005, 24–35).
Honorable assembly!
Before anything else, I sense and praise the spirit of youth and enthusi-
asm that has been created in you. Th e glory, honor, greatness, and maj-
esty of your country are due to this spirit of youth and the eagerness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 123–126.
Published: 01 November 2007
... situates his book and research against many of the
reductive tropes that have characterized Western conceptions of MENA
societies. He deconstructs sweeping labels that have been used to describe
a MENA “psyche,” among them tribal, honor, and fatalistic. In the next
part of this section...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
...,
she was reluctant to do more on their behalf, as she believed that in
Muslim Iraqi society, the help of “an infi del” such as herself would create
unnecessary tensions (Bell 1921). Noticeably, Bell served as the honor-
ary secretary of the British Anti-Suff rage League, feeling that women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 132–140.
Published: 01 March 2024
... a series of acid attacks in Isfahan, where several girls fell victim to acid spray under the guise of “combating obscenity.” The formation of the Stop Honor Killings Campaign in 2020 was a direct response to the murder of Romina Ashrafi, a fourteen-year-old girl whose father killed her with an ax...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 113–115.
Published: 01 November 2011
... survey of criminal laws in the Middle East relating to women
and sexuality, covering legal dealings with adultery under shari‘a, honor
crimes, rape, incest and sexual abuse of children, sexual harassment,
homosexuality, transsexual/transvestism, illegitimate children, abortion...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 July 2008
... sources—archival,
artistic, literary, print media, and memoir literature—to explore notions
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of honor (familial and national) in the complex construction of the Brit-
ish occupation and the 1919 revolution in public discourse. Th e...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 58–85.
Published: 01 March 2007
...: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (2001), and co-editor with Nahla Abdo, Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges (2004). She has written extensively on the relationship between adult education, state, market, and civil society; social movements...
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