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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 60–80.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Sarah A. Kaiksow This paper explores imperial masculinity from the perspective of a British soldier who fought against the Dhofar revolution from 1968 to 1970 while serving in the British-led Army of the Sultan of Oman. Previous writings on masculinity in the context of empire have largely focused...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 398–400.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Yasmine Nachabe Taan Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan . Marie Grace Brown . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . 240 pp. isbn 9781503602649 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 453–454.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., the dissertation places British imperial literary culture in the nineteenth century alongside postcolonial writing by women, whether in the Caribbean (Dominica), South Asia (India), or the Middle East and North Africa (Jordan and Egypt). Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1996), Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and recognizes that mixing and migrations, forced or desired, shape and define all families. It explores the look, feel, and sounds of lifeworlds in the US imperial outpost of Aramco using an immense archive of family photographs and Fadia Basrawi’s memoir, Brownies and Kalashnikovs: A Saudi Woman’s Memoir...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
...-twentieth century. Second, as opposing descriptions of Zionist and Communist participation show, British imperial whiteness , longed for by Iraqi Zionists and eschewed by Communists, stood out in Iraq’s race constellation. Imperial whiteness began with European Jews and was passed along to the Zionist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... experiences of British nurses in Mandate Palestine and scrutinizes their contested status. As women, as British, as medical practitioners, and specifically as nurses, British nurses present a singular type of local-level imperial agent who confronted multiple challenges to their identities. Empowered...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2019
... structures of entrapment and reductionism, resisting essentialist representations of women and Islam in unexpected ways. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Islamic revival gender de-imperialization In Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila Lalami’s...
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in From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 12. Zeinab smashes the crown of imperialism, early 1980s. Hoover Library Online.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
... genital cutting, FGC) was being co-opted by imperial discourses calling for civilizing the women in African, Arab, and Muslim societies—what one might label a form of trafficking in women. Hale chose to decline to address the issue of female circumcision for many years, since her audiences so often found...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
... governmental and nongovernmental human rights organizations. It also highlights how Afghan and Iranian women’s activism is selectively recognized and appropriated by neo-imperial agendas and provides strategies for decolonization. Finally, the article argues that #MahsaAmini and #MyRedLine are exemplary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Sedef Arat-Koç This paper proposes that regional feminisms would be productive in avoiding some of the problems of “global feminism” or the co-opted shapes feminist transnationalism might take when it serves the priorities of international organizations or imperial powers. While Middle Eastern...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., gender, and race. The category of “woman” becomes an important venue to manage statelessness, create an important archive for Kurds, challenge ongoing colonialism in Kurdistan, and challenge US imperialism. Therefore “Kurdish woman” constitutes an important spatial and historical terrain for Kurdish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
... in the mid-nineteenth century. Efforts to control the disease were complicated by a lack of effective treatment until the 1910s, inadequate investment in health care, disparate agendas at the provincial and imperial level, and resistance to treatment by men who feared loss of status and jobs. Transmission...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., profiteering, black markets, rising inequality, and the return of British troops to strategic locations around the country. This article argues that the hybrid beauty represents the push and pull between women’s emerging roles in public spaces and traditional values, imperialism versus authenticity, local...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Peter Drucker Abstract The project of the French Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) in Morocco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—to win social and political equality for Jews through European enlightenment—was intertwined with the French imperial project. Moroccan Jewish women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of a homogenizing visual archive that sustains ways of seeing and producing the Middle East—as inherently violent and culturally backward—that are rooted in imperial imaginaries and political ideologies. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 violence art Lalla Essaydi...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 9. An Aramcon road, with the smoke and fires of the oil refineries in the background disrupting its tidiness and ordinariness and reminding us of the imperial context of the “suburban” scene and its artifice in 1948. The back of the photograph includes Basrawi’s Arabic notations
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and imperialism respectively. Both offer new theories for thinking transnational cultural texts, and both offer compelling examples of these analyses for students and scholars of transnational feminist theory. Jarmakani’s framework is rich with analytic tools for considering transnational subject formation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 122–131.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and political entanglement between SWANA and settler-colonial economies in the global North is an imperial project of geopolitical consolidation using the data economy as a means of securing state sovereignty where it is increasingly challenged by gender- or sexually deviant subjects. For example, the Canadian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 448–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the interpellations of US power structures and their strategic renderings of Iraqi culture. One of the book’s greatest strengths is its success at describing the convergences between US imperial feminist traditions and the dominant gendered models of a “war generation” (27–36) of Iraqis preoccupied with male...
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