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The Pleasures of Domesticity: Household Appliances, Gender, and the Democratization of Well-Being in Nasser’s Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... over some of the tensions in the state’s plan to mobilize women as workers, housewives, and consumers. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Egypt consumption gender household appliances In 1962 the daily newspaper...
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Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 104–106.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Iranian modernity, where ideas of domestic progress were not simply imposed but also animated by those who designed, consumed, and even repurposed household spaces and objects. Chapter 1, “The Hovel, the Harem, and the Hybrid Furnishing,” considers the end of the Qajar period, the late nineteenth...
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In the Shadows of Family Life: Toward a History of Domestic Service in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
... to “please” their wives—like the gift of a
household appliance—particularly when fi rst married. We might note,
fi nally, that dependence on domestic workers has not diminished, but
perhaps increased. No self-respecting architect or builder in the Middle
East would design an apartment without maid’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Amar, 2006), Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (1995), and Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household (co-edited with Homa Hoodfar, 1996). She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Princeton University and did graduate...
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Women as Agents of Grassroots Change: Illustrating Micro-Empowerment in Morocco
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 90–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., or household appliances; one of the best
weavers bought a blender recently in anticipation of the arrival of regu-
lar electricity to her village. She also used some of her money to visit a
married daughter in a distant town. These examples illustrate how these
women have achieved a limited...
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Financial Empowerment of Women in the United Arab Emirates
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 87–99.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., Zayed University, Abu Dhabi
INTRODUCTION
ontrary to stereotyped beliefs, Arab women in the Middle East have
Ccontrol of their own money. Men are expected to pay all household
bills and are not allowed to touch any funds with which women may have
entered the marriage...
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Displaced Arab Families: Mothers’ Voices on Living and Coping in Postwar Beirut
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 54–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the owners of apartment buildings in Raml have no legal
documentation certifying their ownership, many rent out apartments
to families such as those in this study, the great majority of whom are
of low socioeconomic standing, which was obvious from their meager
household furnishings...
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Saving or Spending Money: Women Making Decisions in Rural Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., plan-
ners must pay particular attention to the intra-household finances and
activities. Rural women, as a marginalized section of the society who
usually make “invisible money,” often constitute the major segment of
those who work in the informal section of the economy. The concept...
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Restoring the Family to Civil Society: Lessons From Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2006
... be basically understood from two perspectives—liberal
and Marxist. At the expense of gross simplification, in the historical
tradition of liberal thought, the family is part of the private sphere, the
domain of women, children, and the household, where power appar-
ently does not operate and thus...
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Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
... suggested that Iraq emulate nations
like the United States which incorporated home economics in the public
school curriculum (Gharib 1938). Images of Western women managing
their household oft en appeared in the print culture. Commercials for
soap, home appliances, Western clothing, or shoes...
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Marketing the Modern Egyptian Girl: Whitewashing Soap and Clothes from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1936
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... to the Middle East,
nor did the West introduce these items for commodity production and
trade. Their existence in court-awarded maintenance stipends nafaqa(
awards) along with meat, bread, and oil indicates their importance to
the household (Tucker 1994, 285). In terms of marketing, social relation...
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Sonallah Ibrahim and Miriam Naoum’s Zaat : Deploying the Domestic in Representations of Egyptian Politics
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in a national bank and Zaat works for a TV channel; this move to a two-income household, however, becomes necessary precisely because they need to earn more to support their growing family. Moreover, although Zaat starts working almost at the start of her marriage, she continues to do the housework...
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The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights”: A Plea for Ethnography, not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... heads
of household among the garbage-sorting community of Muqattam and
Manshiet Nasr (Guenena and Wassef 1999). In contrast, the very fi rst
sentence of the Canadian Ambassador’s introduction to the orientation
materials for the Gender Equality program launched by the Canadian
International...
