Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 40
Search Results for interwar
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Hanan Hammad Abstract Court records, police reports, and security statistics indicate that theft was the most frequent crime committed by imprisoned Egyptian women in the interwar period, although scholarship has largely focused on their involvement in prostitution. Theft by women was typically...
View articletitled, Disreputable by Definition: Respectability and Theft by Poor Women in Urban <span class="search-highlight">Interwar</span> Egypt
View
PDF
for article titled, Disreputable by Definition: Respectability and Theft by Poor Women in Urban <span class="search-highlight">Interwar</span> Egypt
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Jonathan Wyrtzen Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East . Liat Kozma . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2017 . 250 pages. isbn 139781438462615. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Liat...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Stacy D. Fahrenthold Abstract In the Arabic-speaking mahjar (diaspora), the plight of the working poor was the focus of women’s philanthropy. Scholarship on welfare relief in the interwar Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian diaspora currently situates it within a gendered politics of benevolence...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in interwar Baghdad. The Ayyub stories, which render homoerotic masculine sexualities as commonplace and a positive aspect of city spaces, are thus distinguished from most Iraqi writings during this period. The stories stage homoeroticism and love between men as democratic critique and affirmation...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... I demonstrate, however, that the discourse about women grew more Iraqi-centric in the 1940s and 50s. I also argue that the changes in the representations of women mirrored the radicalization of the Iraqi intelligentsia. While during the interwar period, the conversation about gender roles was mostly...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... citizens for its improvement. This analysis provides a model for reexamining the relationship between the domestic and the national in the interwar women’s press. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 women interwar period press...
View articletitled, Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr : Reading the Domestic as National in a Conversation between a Mother and a Daughter, 1919–1920
View
PDF
for article titled, Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr : Reading the Domestic as National in a Conversation between a Mother and a Daughter, 1919–1920
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
... the incredible velocity of cars, trains, and planes
but concluded that “the world. . . need(s) tranquility, welfare, and
comfort—not agitation and hardship!” (Anonymous 1940:184). All too
easily, speed could become literally maddening. In the interwar period,
one author identifi ed...
View articletitled, Criminal-Women and Mother-Women: Sociocultural Transformations and the Critique of Criminality in Early Post-World War II Iran
View
PDF
for article titled, Criminal-Women and Mother-Women: Sociocultural Transformations and the Critique of Criminality in Early Post-World War II Iran
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
... transregional women’s movement, feminist ideas and the voices of these women circulated through the pan-Islamist press of the 1910s and 1920s. Like the pan-Islamist reformers, elite feminists of the interwar Middle East often had more in common with one another than they did with women of a different class...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
... industry competing against multinationals, and a negotiation of new roles for husbands and wives in companionate marriage. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 gender consumerism interwar The objectification of women in advertising and the creation...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . Knepper Paul . 2010 . The Invention of International Crime: A Global Issue in the Making, 1881–1914 . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Kozma Liat . 2016 . “ Women’s Migration for Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa .” Journal of Women’s History 28 , no. 3 : 93...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2018
... division of labor. While factory women became symbols of modern Egypt during the interwar period, the gendered stratification of job positions also modernized industrial inequality. Despite the obstacles, some poor women of al-Mahalla undermined state and familial patriarchal systems through economic...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... nurses’ history at the nexus of the trajectories of women’s imperial agency, mobility, and work during the interwar years, offering an additional way to interpret them within the colonial context. Most studies of European women in the colonies focus on female settlers or “incorporated wives” of colonial...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... at Princeton University in 2004. Her
dissertation, “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq, 1921–1941,” looks at the
construction of the Iraqi public sphere and the emergence of democratic
discourses during the interwar period. Her publications include articles
on the history of Arab Jews in Iraq, Iraqi...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 354–355.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of education focused on institutions, more recent studies have focused on the role of the British occupation, class, and the gendered uses of power. Building on this foundation, Yousef mines the curriculum and press from the late nineteenth century through the interwar era to understand the power of a new...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 463–465.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in exciting new directions. Questions that animate this roundtable include: In what ways did feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa transcend the nation and even the region during the interwar period, a time when the nation-state emerged as the default vehicle through which patriarchy was wielded...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 347–349.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of respectability subsist in the margins of society in interwar Egypt. Focusing on the women’s movement to build the Third Jewish Temple in the Temple Mount/Haram ash-Sharif in Jerusalem, Rachel Feldman analyzes women’s strategies for making territory through an embodied politics that relies on whiteness...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 July 2008
... in
the interwar period. Baron demonstrates that despite having been ignored
in the wider literature on nationalism, these women were crucial to the
108 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 4:2
nation-building project. “Nationalist politics must be conceived broadly,
not just as party...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 108–110.
Published: 01 July 2012
...-
porates Lebanon’s “other” interwar period—between World War II and
the 1975 civil war—which has been otherwise relegated to the domains
of political history and political science. Abisaab’s refreshing narrative
takes us beyond—and behind—the political hagiographies and analyses...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., Australia,
India, China, Japan, and South Africa, emerged in the interwar period.
She was a “glocal” figure meant to whet the consuming appetites of elite
and upper-middle-class women.1 She shared the Modern Girl’s essential
features of bobbed hair, smiling face, painted lips...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2017
... explains how interwar Egyptian women participated in theft. Poverty placed women in an antagonistic relationship with the elite ideal of satr , a concept of Egyptian respectability that emphasizes “sexual, moral, and socioeconomic respectability.” For poor and rural girls and women, economic class...
1
