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in Beauty Standards in Egypt: Popular Consumer Culture and the Representation of Women
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 4. “Husband 1: All the girls on the beach are beautiful . . . so where are the ugly ones? Husband 2: We married them!” Akhir saʾa , May 7, 1947, 17.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 102–119.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., a sample of 107 households was selected from a national survey covering 18,243 households conducted by Saint Joseph University in Beirut. After drawing the profiles of the households surveyed, this study uses four independent variables—the husband’s income, the length of the husband’s absence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as educated managers of their homes, children, and husbands—to articulate women’s roles in public, national life. Thus the mother-daughter and husband-wife relationships highlighted in the correspondence fashion women as citizens patriotically devoted to and shaped by the nation, partnered with their fellow...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2008
... able to overcome their infertility through ARTs, not all women’s lives are improved by these technologies. The Iranian civil law emphasizes that family is a warm and placid institute founded upon the authority of the husband and the father. Motherhood and doing housework are the woman’s responsibility...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 80–93.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., or husbands. It also shows that some women were subjected to violence during childhood and adolescence. The study points to the lack of legislation and official organizations to protect women from violence and suggests ways and means of dealing with the problem in Qatari society. Dr. Kaltham al-Ghanim...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... Reasons for this surgery are examined, including physician avarice, masculinity expectations within homosocially competitive fertility regimes, and husbands' desires to share the burden of reproductive suffering with beloved wives. It is argued that within the Middle East, men as well as women are heavily...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Figure 4. “Husband 1: All the girls on the beach are beautiful . . . so where are the ugly ones? Husband 2: We married them!” Akhir saʾa , May 7, 1947, 17. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... interventions that suppressed expert witnessing by local women birth attendants ( qabla s) and instead privileged the witness credibility of husbands as heads of households. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 Algeria colonial law colonial medicine expert witness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 87–99.
Published: 01 July 2008
... percent of subjects were between 20 and 30 years old.
Forty-fi ve percent of responders said they lived with their parents, 21%
lived with their husband’s parents, and 34% lived in their own house or
apartment. Fift y-fi ve percent attended university, 31% stayed at home,
and 14% worked...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
... with the
domestic relations between husband and wife. It legislates men’s author-
ity over their women, which entails the male’s right to discipline his
women in order to ensure female obedience both toward God and also
himself” (Stowasser 1998, 33). Another Islamic mufassir, BaydawiBaydawi (d.(d...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
... their memories and dreams about family matters and what they
thought about the way their husbands made and spent money. I relied on
focus group discussions to cross-check the information I had gathered.
Money as a Social Concept
Money is a key concept in modern societies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 July 2018
... women otherwise separated by class, education, and location. Elmas has little formal education and lives in a provincial town with her husband and mother-in-law. Şehnaz is a highly educated urbanite living with her boyfriend in Istanbul and commuting to a provincial hospital to complete her mandatory...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 157–162.
Published: 01 July 2005
... busies herself with other household chores, including carpet
weaving. Her husband was martyred in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), leaving
her a widow. Reminiscing about him, she sweetly but bashfully admits how
much she misses and dreams of him and how she liked him when they got...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 54–80.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., center, south of the West Bank,
and three in urban, rural, and refugee camp locales in East Jerusalem).5
Most of the wives interviewed had husbands serving long sentences,
with a majority arrested during the first four years of the Second Inti-
fada. We also interviewed institutions providing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
... dependence on Kosrow. While Maryam in Lantouri forgives her attacker, Kosrow calls Hana the devil, blames her for the death of his wife, and asks for her to be put to death. In these new films women are the primary protectors of the sanctity of marriage and home. They make sure that husbands do...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 2–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
... husband from easily divorcing her. Asking for a large final dowry offered women some protection against a man’s unilateral right to divorce in Islam. Through this contractual agreement, Miryam symbolically preserved her financial security in light of a conversion that may have broken existing ties...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 108–115.
Published: 01 November 2005
... an objection specifying the legal grounds for her failure
to obey her husband within thirty days of receiving the notice, she is
considered deviant (n∂shiz) and denied alimony upon divorce. Obedi-
ence notices cannot in themselves prevent a woman from obtaining a
divorce. However...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
Published: 01 November 2020
... will be men.” But while aggressively walking in enemy territory, a Gypsy woman within her own society needed to “be subservient to her husband and cautious with other men” (167). Another potential matriarchal feature is the noted preference for daughters among Roma communities. Tamas Bereczkei and R. I. M...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... practice of living near extended family anchored them geographically and made them less subject to husbands’ desires to relocate. Many of these characteristics are expected for women in the 1950s, and, given their participation in the formal labor force, Polish promotion of restrictive femininity may...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412065.
Published: 19 September 2024
.... Women, by state or religious law, cannot have two husbands of any type.3 We cannot, however, assume all the men in our sample who are in informal marriages are not formally married. With regard to the second category, only survey participants over the age of eighteen were included, which would exclude...
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