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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and causes, she de-emphasizes the biographical details of many of the authors. It may have been worthwhile to relate, for example, Bitar’s work as a female ophthalmologist in Syria to her ability to construct complex female characters who wrestle with the physical and symbolic aspects of their illnesses...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 359–386.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as diseased people who need treatment for an illness. By closely examining the legal-hermeneutical arguments behind four widely cited fatwas on GCS—the fatwas of the Islamic Fiqh Council of the Muslim World League, the National Council of Islamic Religious Affairs, Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī, and Ayatollah Khomeini...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
...: transformations from a whole body to a partial body, from healthy to ill, from interconnected to isolated, and from wholesome to poisoned. This article argues that the systemic disabling and poisoning of women’s bodies in the novel violates the sanctity of the home and body and mirrors the destruction...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 79–86.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Shahd Alshammari Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 There is a daunting scarcity of illness narratives and even fewer fictional texts that include a disabled female heroine in Arab literary works. Disability features in various texts as a subtheme, part...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 389–391.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., the global rise of biomedical psychiatry cannot explain the regionally and historically specific lived experience of mental illness. Proposing an alternative to top-down research methods that Orkideh Behrouzan groups under the rubric of “post-Foucauldian” cultural critique, Prozak Diaries investigates...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575457.
Published: 10 January 2025
... of famines, revolts, and political decline. 4 In addition to environmental concerns, urban space could be seen as producing illness, while the purer air of the country or seaside could aid health.5 When the wife of Sultan al-Ashraf In l (d. 1461), Zaynab al-Khbakiyya, felt indisposed (tawa uk...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 458–460.
Published: 01 November 2017
... own understanding of a gendered, racialized, and disabled body into my academic research. There were many illness narratives that had not found a home in academic discourse. Throughout my academic career, I was labeled a women’s studies scholar, specifically interested in Arab women and postcolonial...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 March 2018
... illness; for example, we’re able to speak, in depth, about our families as we’ve never done before, and as a result of the urgency of the movement, and of moments we want to capture and keep in our memory. (Accad 2001 , 214) July 29th 1994 Having miriam with me, as with Eva [Enderlein], is very...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 54–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
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quences of ill health in the hands of the poor.
COUNTRY OVERVIEW
Th e Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975, and led to the displacement of
about one million persons (Assaf and El-Fil 2000). Th e fi rst large-scale
wave of displacement occurred along confessional lines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., Shi‘ism
emphasizes harmony between body and mind and in terms of science
any one of these individuals who reach this level of illness will not get
better. Without substitute, sex reassignment surgery is the only cure.”11
SRS ensures a cure to this disharmony, approved through various fatwas...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... is marginalized not only by gender but also by ethnicity and mental illness. I present this analysis as one example of a way to think anthropologically about fiction that deals with women’s deep psychological and emotional states, issues, and expression. This anthropological approach focuses specifically...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
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of illness, health, birth, and death. Observing the interaction between
traditional healing practices and modern clinical practices in light of
the processes of globalization allows Önder to draw sound conclusions
about cultural constructions of beliefs regarding not only medical issues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 39–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
... character made her less of a radical
revolutionary. She seemed to feel more fulfilled when providing tangible
assistance to people. As a young physician, she found solace in treating
the ill who could not afford to pay for it. Both in scope and in depth...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 307–325.
Published: 01 November 2020
... a prostitute in hopes that she will gain entry to the aristocratic life she so passionately yearns for. But instead, she recounts, “now I have been living here for three years, and so far I have fallen severely ill a couple of times, and with the bills my aunt has piled up, I owe her sixty tuman and I don’t...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 58–79.
Published: 01 July 2013
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of the notion of Orientalist masculinity—a man in a privileged position
with access to knowledge in society—disengaged, detached, and objec-
tive for the purposes of his research on Islam. But Rae’s conversion, his
illness, and the fact that he needs a translator for his work on the Middle
East, argues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 132–133.
Published: 01 November 2007
... contexts with the lives of individuals, i.e., one’s experience of
one’s own body, family, and social surroundings. Dr. Birenbaum-Carmeli
has published extensively in professional journals such as Social Science &
Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, and Science as Culture.
Marcia...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 169–170.
Published: 01 March 2022
... at a diplomatic distance and citing Nawal’s ill health. Madame Sadat apologized that she could do little or nothing, and we rang off. The next day Nawal was released and rewrote the entire piece. It still shines in the anthology. Nawal and I became good friends during the ensuing decades, sometimes arguing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 274–276.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and the right revolutionary or heroic is their defiance of taboos around nudity and challenge to sameness with difference. The presence of marks caused by childbirth, breastfeeding, aging, and illness demystify the female body, particularly in relation to its hypersexualization. Using striking and provocative...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 117–119.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that feature gay characters, who, despite contributing to the visibility of nonnormative sexualities, perpetuate negative stereotypes of homosexuality linked to mental illness and alcoholism. A more nuanced engagement with the role of Islam in chapters 6 and 7 could have enriched the analysis by exploring its...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 137–139.
Published: 01 July 2006
... but at
times “perceived as an aberration…like an illness, or a shameful luxury”
(90). Similarly, she learns that concepts of private possession are cultur-
ally defined. In one episode, her sisters-in-law borrow her good blouses
without permission; while Drouart is furious at the violation...
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